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
>
The zero originated with ancient Indian mathematicians; this was incorporated
into the Arabic system of numbering which is what we use, almost completely
unchanged, to this day.
RK
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