2007-09-09 13:54:18 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Nobody made that one
2007-09-09 13:59:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If someone had come up with the concept of zero which everyone then saw as a brilliant innovation to enter mathematics from that time on, the question would have a satisfactory answer even if we did not know which genius invented it. The historical record, however, shows quite a different path towards the concept. Zero makes shadowy appearances only to vanish again almost as if mathematicians were searching for it yet did not recognise its fundamental significance even when they saw it.
This link has the whole "history" of the origin of 0.
2007-09-09 14:00:04 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone may know an actual name, but I know we were told in junior high that it was a Persian; or in any case, someone from the east. That's part of why we call our numerals "Arabic," in distinction to Roman.
Do you know how horrible arithmetic was in Roman numerals? My Latin teacher made us do some sums to illustrate the point. Without a zero, you can't count out the numbers by placement, even if you group them like this:
LM XC VI, which I think is 1996.
2007-09-09 14:01:14 · answer #3 · answered by auntb93 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The first recorded zero is attributed to the Babylonians in the 3rd century BC. A long period followed when no one else used a zero place holder. But then the Mayans, halfway around the world in Central America, independently invented zero in the fourth century CE. The final independent invention of zero in India was long debated by scholars, but seems to be set around the middle of the fifth century. It spread to Cambodia around the end of the 7th century. From India it moved into China and then to the Islamic countries. Zero finally reached western Europe in the 12th century."
2007-09-09 13:59:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
India and its people invented the concept of 0
2007-09-09 13:58:04 · answer #5 · answered by boygreek13 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, but I made a Number 2.
2007-09-09 13:56:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Me, the first time I relized what the term "broke" meant.... well no maybe it was when I was hungry and did not have any food... thirsty and no water? Lost and wanting to go in any direction 20 paces to find the gold?
I guess you want a more correct definition but seriously please tell me they do not ascribe the INVENTION of ZERO to any individual. Maybe just the person who first wrote the concept down for humanity? but no body made it.
2007-09-09 13:59:38 · answer #7 · answered by chattanooga chip 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probly when the first disscovered numbers
"one rock two rock three rock..."
"I say Dave... what happens when there aren't any rocks"
"I don't know... I guess it's just... No rocks... Nothing... Naught, Zero."
I'm sure the even number thing and all other mathmatics about it that I don't know came later.
Also I thought mathmatics was the only international langage so the have always existed, all of them.
2007-09-09 14:01:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
father of the guy who invented numbers 1 thru 7 as well as the number 23.
2007-09-09 13:56:40 · answer #9 · answered by thathirdrail 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well the Sumerians came up with the first number code for real humans.
But I guess you could say that you did since no
one else will step forward.
2007-09-09 14:01:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nostradamus
2007-09-09 13:58:25 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋