[Antoninus]

. Using zero or "cyphering" as it was called, was of course using demonic symbology. The only people who would do that were considered heretics, suitable for non-anatomically-instructive disassembly with red hot pincers under the auspices of people who knew "zero" about math, but were Theologically Correct.

Please provide proof of that statement--and I'd prefer a primary source of some kind. It smells of BS revisionist history.

[omnivore]

See _A History of Pi_ by Petr Beckmann, published in 1976. I read it years ago, it's a good history of math. I don't recall the exact method of death penalty used for heretic mathematicians who defied God by using the Satanic symbol of "0", whether it was burning at the stake, breaking on the wheel, tearing off the flesh with red hot pincers, or any of the other routine punishments handed out to heretics, who were the politically incorrect of their day. But they were indeed tortured to death.

What would be revisionism, would be to deny the historical record, that the Church used to torture people to death for various sorts of "heresies" that today are rightly laughed at.