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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This was impossible to answer prior to 3 BC.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Unless you were Mayan. They had a concept of zero, or so I heard. But they lacked the letters, a-z and the parentheses :p

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Ah, I forgot zero was so recent.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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] 0 points 1 month ago

TIL they had ghost concerts back then