The Origin of Zero
Patented: History of Inventions
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The Idea of Nothing
In my mind, we've always just had standard maths. This is the way that we do things. The idea that you'd have people doing maths with a different set of numbers and symbols is just so counter ancher to tem i no,. You don't think of zero as something that could never have been invented. Yas e always, just always there. I want to ask you about the shapes a will, ecause presumably i've got a brilliant idea for a number. What is it, you know, when you don't have anything? Yes, let's write that down. And you be like, what were you talking about? Well, i'm just imagining being an indian
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