What is the roman numeral number for zero?

Question

have you asked your grade school teacher this?

if there is none, how do romans tell that there is none?

Answer 1

I dont think there is a roman numeral for zero...

Answer 2

historically 0 was introduced by the Hindu and Arab mathematicians at almost the same time in 300 BC. It only reached Europ in the 11th Century (AD) and it is known that the Roman Empire ended arround 5th century AD and the west was left in the dark ages and middle ages until the Ottoman Empire came and introduced Arab science and math to the west

the Romans didn't really need 0 cos they figured out a way to write the numbers without it like 10 is X 50 is L and 100 is C etc...

Romans usually left an empty space when they were subtracting numbers and the total was zero, a void

Answer 3

The romans did not have a numerical sign for 'zero'. This does not mean that they did not have the "concept" of zero, which they clearly had. Only one instance of using some sort of symbol to represent zero was in 725 using the letter N in a tablet of epacts, but this was not the norm of the roman culture.

Answer 4

In general, the number zero did not have its own Roman numeral, but the concept of zero as a number was well known by all medieval computists (responsible for calculating the date of Easter). They included zero (via the Latin word nulla meaning nothing) as one of nineteen epacts, or the age of the moon on March 22. The first three epacts were nullae, xi, and xxii (written in minuscule or lower case). The first known computist to use zero was Dionysius Exiguus in 525, but the concept of zero was no doubt well known earlier. Only one instance of a Roman numeral for zero is known. About 725, Bede or one of his colleagues used the letter N, the initial of nullae, in a table of epacts, all written in Roman numerals.

Answer 5

Zero was invented by Indians and passed on to the West thru Arabs.Hence there was no roman numeral for zero.

Answer 6

The place holder zero was concept introduced by Arabic mathematicians. That is why we adopted that type of numbering system...roman numerals were too restricted, i.e. how would you multiply large numbers using roman numerals?

Answer 7

There is no zero in Roman numerals. They didn't have a zero.
It was introduced into Europe by the Arabs, but Dr. Math, at the link below, says it was developed earlier in India.

Answer 8

There is none.

That is why Roman Numerals are so cumbersome.

The invention of the zero was pure genius!

That is why we use Arabic Numerals today.

Answer 9

"Only one instance of a Roman numeral for zero is known. About 725, Bede or one of his colleagues used the letter N, the initial of nullae, in a table of epacts, all written in Roman numerals."

Answer 10

There is no roman numeral for zero