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[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago

This was impossible to answer prior to 3 BC.

[-] anzo@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago

Unless you were Mayan. They had a concept of zero, or so I heard. But they lacked the letters, a-z and the parentheses :p

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Why?

[-] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 36 points 2 years ago

0 wasn’t invented yet.

Mesopotamians invented it because year 0 was approaching, so there was a dire need to represent such number.

[-] scapegarced@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

TIL they had ghost concerts back then

[-] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

0 BCE kind of sucked. Thankfully, they figured it out and 0 CE was awesome.

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

That’s when the number 0 was introduced in India.

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Ah, I forgot zero was so recent.

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