Zero: The Most Important Number

Babylonians

Created zero

A numerical representation for nothing

Was a number for something that didn't have value

A placeholder for numbers like 305

Made math easier to write

Things created from zero

Calculus

Engineering

God's Equation

Binary Code

Electronics

Pythagoreans

Banned zero

Couldn't be expressed with physical objects

You can't represent zero sticks

Broke their system of math

Can't divide any number by zero

Every number times zero equals zero

Threatened their power over the mathematical realm

They still didn't really understand it

The Babylonians invented the number