World without 0 ( Zero), how important it is?

Question

Guess the human life , if 0 ( Zero) was not discovered.

Importance of 0 ( ZERO)

if you will spare some time to think that if 0 was not discovered what happen . it is really amazing.

freinds it not only impotant in maths , image in science,physics , Astronomy & Space, Geography , Weather ,socialy, medical,Earth Sciences & Geology ,Computer, Internet , Engineering , Environment & Ecology , Business & Finance,

Answer 1

World without zero is "Zero" It would come to a standstill. You cannot do anything without zero. You just cannot describe the importance. Amazingly there is no life without zero. The roman system had the inherent drawbacks which led to the metric system or the international system of numbering and that cannot survive without zero.

Answer 2

It is said that Aryabhatta discovered 0 in India. If not for Aryabhatta, someone else might have discovered it (naturally, since great people are everywhere) for it's need in mathematics. I believe...

* science is the basis of human civilization
* mathematics is the basis of science
* arthmetic is the basis of mathematics and
* zero is the basis of arithmetic.

Zero(or Shunya in Sanskrit, which means vacuum or non-existential) is the basis of every computation.
If you negate zero, you get something existential. That something existential could be anything- say a floating point as small as 0.1*10^-(10^10) or a very large value as 0.1*10^10^10

Integers are special types of such floating point numbers where we do not have a floating number associated to them. If we talk of arithmetic for integers(for that matter even for floating point numbers), we can easily realize that zero is the basis.

For ex: Taking 1 as an increment, every integer could be defined as in terms of the 'zero' basis.
0 = 0 (Also 0 = 0 + 0 + 0... and so on. This could be proved by considering non-existence as an open set.)
1 = 0 + 1
2 = 0 + 1 + 1 .. and so on.

Every floating point number could also be defined in the same way, but it depends on the choice of increment one chooses to have.

Multiplication also behaves very naturally with 0 as basis.

For ex:
1 x 3 = 0 + 1 + 1 + 1 (or 0 + 3) = 3
2 x 3 = 0 + 2 + 2 + 2 (or 0 + 3 + 3) = 6

Now
0 x 3 = 0 + (0 + 0 + 0) = 0. (This naturally answers the profound question of why any number multiplied by 0 should be 0).

With my little mind, these are only a very few small things I could think of the uses of 0. More insight by scholars is welcome!

Answer 3

Zero is surely important due to the fact that infinite numbers can be framed by using just 10 characters (0 to 9). It would be impossible to give distinct forms for all the numbers we count if we don't use limited forms by repetition. Thus zero is the figure which distinguishes the change in the decimal system.

Originally zero has been in use in India for long time. The very basic fact why 10 should be the decimal is just because human being has 10 fingers. In early days, he used fingers to count and when the count goes beyond 10, he would have one finger from foot bent to count further. Thus the decimal system came into effect.

10 is widely used in the Hindu mythology to support the fact that this has been in use in India for long time. For example, Lord Krishna has 10 avatars or incarnations. In Sanskrit 10 is called as 'dasam', which is what is used for the month December. December was 10th month in the Western Calendar before the months July and August were introduced. Even the word 'Decimal' is derived from this Sanskrit word.

If there were no zero, then counting and writing the numbers would be a nightmare. We may need to have special computers just to store all the numbers.

Zero is un-avoidable in life. Philosophically there can be only two states for any thing, either 'Yes' or 'No'. This is represented as 1 and 0. Any logic can be broken down to a 'decision-tree' of zeros and ones. Thus zero is unavoidable as much as one.

Answer 4

Here is a sample of the common numbering system used in Europe before the concept of zero was introduced:

I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X --that's 1 through 10;

X, XX, XXX, XL, L, LX, LXX, LXXX, XC, C --thats 10 through 100 by 10s;

C, CC, CCC, ... CM, M --that's 100-300 and 900-1000.
I don't know how to write 400 through 800; there was probably a separate symbol for 500 that would determine those numbers. Compare the 10s pattern above.

Answer 5

Zero is important as a placeholder numeral. Without zero, you couldn't write any multiple of ten or numbers like 403 or 2003, etc.

Answer 6

Zero means absolutely nothing to me.


Sorry, I couldn't resist the play on words. Anyway, check this out:

"Therefore, the discovery of the zero and the development of the place-value numeration had to wait for a less oppressive intellectual climate -- a flourishing business and commercial atmosphere. Such a climate took place in India between the first and fifth centuries A.D. It was during that time in India that the zero was discovered and the system of place-value numeration was developed, almost reaching to their fullest formulation by 500 A.D. " [See source.]

Answer 7

With out zero there would be no negative numbers either. The definition of a neg number is a number when added to another number equal zero.
Maybe that would be good for enron profit margins

Answer 8

look without 0 you can never have an answer of 0 in your math class ex.
1+-1 can never be other number like 1-1 gugolplex
another ex. is 1-1 and 2-2

Answer 9

If zero was not discovered then perhaps another number in replacement for zero would be discovered. Anyway, zero is just a word and meanings are not in words...

Answer 10

At first, most people would think "Hmmm its not a big deal, just says 'none'," but really it is. How could you write large numbers, for example 4,041,003? You couldn't say "four million, none hundred thousand forty-one...." you'd have to say zero. So, to answer your question, I think the number zero is an important discovery to mathematics and numbers, but I think "human kind" could live without it...