Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for November 19, 2015

Make me one with everything. Has a better ring than zeroing out. At least they have our number.

Zero came from Arabia, not India.

Peter, the Arabs got it from India.

The first modern equivalent of numeral zero comes from a Hindu astronomer and mathematician Brahmagupta in 628. His symbol to depict the numeral was a dot underneath a number. However the first evidence we have of zero is from the Sumerian culture in Mesopotamia, some 5,000 years ago. There, a slanted double wedge was inserted between cuneiform symbols for numbers, written positionally, to indicate the absence of a number in a place (as we would write 102, the ‘0’ indicating no digit in the tens column).