Re: Ebisedian number system (I)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 17, 2002, 22:05 |
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Christian Thalmann wrote:
> You can always blame it on religion, which is probably even older
> than counting, and can justify just about any counterintuitive
> social feature. Just think of how there's no year "0" in our time
> reckoning! ;-)
The concept of zero as a number didn't exist in Europe in the middle
ages.
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