Origin of Zero, from where does the o come from in the indigenous irish peoples names?

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Added detail: Personally, I have a thought or a theory, that the large civilisation stone circle people who lived in the British Isles, and France and Belgium, at around 2,000 - 4,000BC, and probably earlier, who didnt leave any kind of writing, had a name! from the people who lived outside that civilisation, and that name would probably have been "O", obviously representative of the shape of their circles.

Going on a bit more, it is known conventionally that writing is developed from numbers, which were known to have developed from recording debts of exchange (money). Hence from this,it can be deduced that this was a large sharing civilisation. Circles are representative of community, community bonding ie. people holding hands in a circle, which our voluntary group sector uses as their chief symbol today the world over. It means zero, no score, no competition, it means love, community, sharing. and abundance

Answer 1

You're completely and utterly wrong. The "Ó" in an Irish name means "grandson of". It's not a zero, and is in no way related to a zero, and is not supposed to represent a circle either. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_names#Surnames_and_prefixes

Answer 2

The "O" in Irish names is a contraction of "Of" eg John O'Neill = John of the Neill Clan.

In maths the "0" like all other digits are Arabic symbols (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9). Thanks to the Arabs, Seventeen is 17 and not the Latin XVII (there is no representation of Zero in the Latin numeric system)

Many stone circles are believed to be circular because of the ease in design. You just place a stick in the proposed centre and use a piece of string to mark the circumference. Job done! No complex angles to worry about!

Answer 3

Nice theory, no evidence to support it. The zero was devised by the Arabs in the Middle Ages, when it became useful to work with positive and negative numbers. The O' has something to do with a contraction of " of + Name ", which corresponded to a certain area.

Answer 4

Interesting hypothesis. But a bit far-fetched. Remember Occam's Razor.

Answer 5

0 was first used by aryabhatta in mathematics