#0 Jeremiah Smith (S)

[gtzulu]

We're numbering from 0 this year

https://t.co/GosX2ibZND

 

[JJacket]

We're numbering from 0 this year

https://t.co/GosX2ibZND

I believe the Indians (from India) invented the concept of 0. I'm buying lotto tix tonight.

 

[ThomsonJacket]

New coaches putting in work

 

[cyclejacket]

Donations to the new recruiting regime already paying dividends.

 

[Akıncı]

I believe the Indians (from India) invented the concept of 0. I'm buying lotto tix tonight.

Yeah they invented it so they have a number to give when people ask them for money.

 

[00Burdell]

Yeah they invented it so they have a number to give when people ask them for money.

 

[eg1]

Yeah they invented it so they have a number to give when people ask them for money.

Russel Peters -- "I am thinking of something less ..."

 

[ramblinwise1]

the arabs invented 0

 

[JJacket]

the arabs invented 0

. These early counting systems only saw the zero as a placeholder—not a number with its own unique value or properties. A full grasp of zero’s importance would not arrive until the seventh century A.D. in India. There, the mathematician Brahmagupta and others used small dots under numbers to show a zero placeholder, but they also viewed the zero as having a null value, called “sunya.” Brahmagupta was also the first to show that subtracting a number from itself results in zero. From India, the zero made its way to China and back to the Middle East, where it was taken up by the mathematician Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khowarizmi around 773. It was al-Khowarizmi who first synthesized Indian arithmetic and showed how the zero could function in algebraic equations, and by the ninth century the zero had entered the Arabic numeral system in a form resembling the oval shape we use today.