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[Horse]

Hi Platt

The history of '0' is fascinating - I remember having a very long 
conversation (couple of hours) with one of my college lecturers some 
years ago and did a bit of research into it's history around that time. 
There's a good article on wikipedia about it at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0_(number)

It seems that Arabic culture imported the idea from India through their 
trading links and introduced it into the west as a useful concept.
The Greeks had the same problem as I did, which is that there is a 
problem attributing something to nothing! I came to the conclusion that 
it's more like a manipulator than a number as when you divide a number 
by 0 you get infinity and when you multiply another number by 0 you get 
0! Subtracting, adding or whatever seems to leave the original number 
intact.

Cheers

Horse


On 21/02/2010 15:35, plattholden at gmail.com wrote:
> On 21 Feb 2010 at 4:01, Horse wrote:
> Hey Horse,
>
> Right you are. Thanks. In the words of a politician, "I misspoke." I should
> have said, "We in the West owe much to them including the invention of
> Arabic numerals."
>
> Platt
>
>
>
>    
>> Erm.... I think you mean the Indians (the ones in India!).
>>
>> Horse
>>
>> On 20/02/2010 23:54, plattholden at gmail.com wrote:
>>      
>>> We in the West owe much to them including the invention of zero.
>>>
>>>        
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