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[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago

This was impossible to answer prior to 3 BC.

[-] anzo@programming.dev 14 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

Why?

[-] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 31 points 1 day ago

0 wasn’t invented yet.

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

[-] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

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

[-] scapegarced@sopuli.xyz 2 points 12 hours ago

TIL they had ghost concerts back then

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

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

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Ah, I forgot zero was so recent.

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