5/9/2023 0 Comments Zero by Charles Seife![]() thus, we need to learn about this dangerous idea. as engineers zero is a dangerous thing, but as Magicians of technology, well handled zero can open the door to infinity. ![]() Zero, so powerful that could stop a billion-dollar war machine because a programmer forgot in a single line to test against dividing by zero. Zero, an outsider for the Pythagorean's because as Masters of Geometry, they couldn't believe in something that was geometrically unrepresentable. Zero, so despised by the Greeks that they'd rather convert fractions in their bothersome systems into the Babylonian system, did everything there and then converted it back to their own system. Zero, used by the Mayans to create a calendar far superior than the Western Calendar which is an Egyptian creation. ![]() Zero, invented by the Babylonians as a humble placeholder to differentiate 61 from 3601 in their sexagesimal system. Zero, Egyptians got an entire Civilization going on without it. ![]()
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