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minus-squareadr1anlinkfedilinkEnglish15•1 month agoUnless you were Mayan. They had a concept of zero, or so I heard. But they lacked the letters, a-z and the parentheses :p
minus-squaremagic_lobster_partylinkfedilink35•1 month ago0 wasn’t invented yet. Mesopotamians invented it because year 0 was approaching, so there was a dire need to represent such number.
minus-square@TempermentalAnomalylinkEnglish1•edit-21 month ago0 BCE kind of sucked. Thankfully, they figured it out and 0 CE was awesome.
This was impossible to answer prior to 3 BC.
Unless you were Mayan. They had a concept of zero, or so I heard. But they lacked the letters, a-z and the parentheses :p
Why?
0 wasn’t invented yet.
Mesopotamians invented it because year 0 was approaching, so there was a dire need to represent such number.
0 BCE kind of sucked. Thankfully, they figured it out and 0 CE was awesome.
TIL they had ghost concerts back then
That’s when the number 0 was introduced in India.
Ah, I forgot zero was so recent.