The and Surprising History of the Once-Rejected Zero
3 beardyw 1 5/10/2025, 5:31:38 AM scientificamerican.com ↗
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beardyw · 9h ago
This seems to miss what seems obvious to me. Numbers were used first and foremost to describe quantities. It is understandable that an absence of pigs would not be considered a number. And it represents exactly the same thing as zero cows - which no other number would.