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