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によって Zachariah Beesley 5年前.

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Zero

The concept of zero has played a pivotal role throughout history, originating with the Babylonians who first introduced it as a numerical symbol signifying nothing. It served as a crucial placeholder in numerical systems, simplifying the representation of numbers like 305.

Zero

Zero: The Most Important Number

Pythagoreans

Banned zero
Threatened their power over the mathematical realm

The Babylonians invented the number

They still didn't really understand it

Broke their system of math

Every number times zero equals zero

Can't divide any number by zero

Couldn't be expressed with physical objects

You can't represent zero sticks

Things created from zero

Binary Code
Electronics
God's Equation
Calculus
Engineering

Babylonians

Created zero
A placeholder for numbers like 305

Made math easier to write

A numerical representation for nothing

Was a number for something that didn't have value