The Origin of Zero
Patented: History of Inventions
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The Invention of Zero
We've always had zero as one of the numbers, zero, nine. But what if we treat that like a number and do the same thing with it that we would do in numbers? What happens then? The indians went, oh, no bu we've virtually got this symbal called suna, which just means emptiness or void. And they're going to put that in to show that column's empty. We don't actually know who first came up with the idea, because there were some great mathematicians in it. Could have been one of them just sat there. So it's a number and it's nothing. Where does that take us?
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