The Origin of Zero
Patented: History of Inventions
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The Difference Between Invention and Innovation
Think about this symbol in a new way gave it a new meaning. I means a bit like when they started to say, let's have negative numbers. By having that as a mathematical idea, you could do lots of things that you couldn't do before. And the same sort of thing was zero. They went, oh, actually, o if we treat this like a number and we put it into the same things we weredo in with actual numbers, then suddenly we can do loads of things in mass that we couldn’t do before. Whereas in europe, i think it was much more actually, this enables us to do things, practically, that we needed to do what
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