Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for November 19, 2015
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Transcript:
Mister President! India is suing for half of our data! Half our data? On what basis? Damn. Damn, that's pretty good. Some centuries prior... I call it zero.
David OBrien about 9 years ago
Make me one with everything. Has a better ring than zeroing out. At least they have our number.
Cozmik Cowboy about 9 years ago
Zero came from Arabia, not India.
Olddog1 about 9 years ago
Peter, the Arabs got it from India.
51 Champion over 3 years ago
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).