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minus-squarestenAanden@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·6 days agoI guess it’s the different cultures that invented the number zero? Except Babylon didn’t?
minus-squareSorryQuick@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-26 days agoTechnically Babylon and Egypt first had what could be described as a concept of zero, while India invented the modern mathematical zero.
minus-squaremermella@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoThey first had a blank space, not mathematical zero
I guess it’s the different cultures that invented the number zero?
Except Babylon didn’t?
The Maya invented zero
Technically Babylon and Egypt first had what could be described as a concept of zero, while India invented the modern mathematical zero.
They first had a blank space, not mathematical zero