Posted on 12/13/2014 6:32:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Of all the numerals, "0" -- alone in green on the roulette wheel -- is most significant. Unique in representing absolute nothingness, its role as a placeholder gives our number system its power. It enables the numerals to cycle, acquiring different meanings in different locations (compare 3,000,000 and 30). With the exception of the Mayan system, whose zero glyph never left the Americas, ours is the only one known to have a numeral for zero. Babylonians had a mark for nothingness, say some accounts, but treated it primarily as punctuation. Romans and Egyptians had no such numeral either...
Found on a stone stele, it was documented in 1931 by a French scholar named George Coedes. Assigned the identifying label K-127, the inscription reads like a bill of sale and includes references to slaves, five pairs of oxen and sacks of white rice. Though some of the writing wasn't deciphered, the inscription clearly bore the date 605 in an ancient calendar that began in the year A.D. 78. Its date was thus A.D. 683. Two centuries older than the one at Gwalior, it predated wide-ranging Arab trade. But K-127 disappeared during the Khmer Rouge's rule of terror, when more than 10,000 artifacts were deliberately destroyed...
The majority view is that numbers exist outside of the human mind. Unlike Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, they don't require a human creator. What gave numbers their power was the very act of naming them and writing them down. I'm now working with Cambodian officials to move K-127 to a museum in Phnom Penh, where a wide audience can appreciate the incredible discovery it represents.
(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...
This inscription, written in Old Khmer, reads "The Caka era reached year 605 on the fifth day of the waning moon." The dot (at right) is now recognized as the oldest known version of our zero. (Amir Aczel)
B-B-But I was told the muzzies invented Zero!
(Lied to again and again!)
I thought it was the Indians. But, we do use Arabic numerals.
Just look at the occupnnt of the White Hutt...invented by Muzzies, lying to us all the time.....a real ZERO.
They STOLE it from the Indians.
And i am sure the numerals predated the 7th century if you catch my drift! :-)
Ah...that’s where it originated!
LOL.
>>The majority view is that numbers exist outside of the human mind.
How is that possible? Is the “majority view” necessarily accurate?
0,0 IS the origin.
But they did, (likely with help from the Kenyans and George Soros...)
We needed a hero, but got a zero who thinks he’s Nero.
Maybe, just maybe these “Intrepid Scholars” are wrong.
It could be that they are see a zero when it is really the letter “O”.
An O that stands for Obama who is “”Unique in representing absolute nothingness”.
Could be.
I like it!
Pure noughtiness.
Is that 0.0 or just 0? And what is anthing to the power of 0? And what do you get when you divide by zero. Pretty cool number!
"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
127.0.0.1 is the center of the local pipes.
Y=0
Without a place keeper, we couldn’t have algebra.
Addition and subtraction would be cumbersome operations.
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