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142. Zero
The Allusionist
The Hindoo Arabic Numerical System of Positional Notation
The person credited with introducing zero to europe was fibbon archie. He wrote about the hindu arabic numeral system in his 12 o two book, liber abachi. It took quite a while for the concept of zero to catch on in europe. For zero as a concept that was deftly something that was heavily contested by lots of philosophers. And if you think about it, zero breaks a lot of rules. Even dividing by zero is illegal math. So there are many reasons too protest zero.
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