Re: [OM] OT Millenium Plans

[Matthias Wilke]

>>...but it's rather a Roman custom... (u know, how romans write numbers, did
>>they have the concept of Zero back then?)
>>
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>
>I believe it was the Greeks who gave the concept of nothing a number. Huge
>breakthrough in mathematics.
>
>Foxy

Also the Maya had the cipher / zero independently.

Matthias



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