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Simplify (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 16 hours ago by sjmarf to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

This was impossible to answer prior to 3 BC.

[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Why?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago

0 wasn’t invented yet.

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 12 hours ago

Ah, I forgot zero was so recent.

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