Terry and Tracey wrote:
> >...but it's rather a Roman custom... (u know, how romans write numbers, did
> >they have the concept of Zero back then?)
> >
>
> I believe it was the Greeks who gave the concept of nothing a number. Huge
> breakthrough in mathematics.
>
> Foxy
ooopppssss. I wish it was us Greeks, but it wasnt. It was the Indians and the
Arabs.
Although we were the first to *use* it in mathematics.
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