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Simplify (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] disguy_ovahea 40 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This was impossible to answer prior to 3 BC.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Unless you were Mayan. They had a concept of zero, or so I heard. But they lacked the letters, a-z and the parentheses :p

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

0 wasn’t invented yet.

Mesopotamians invented it because year 0 was approaching, so there was a dire need to represent such number.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

TIL they had ghost concerts back then

[–] TempermentalAnomaly 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

0 BCE kind of sucked. Thankfully, they figured it out and 0 CE was awesome.

[–] disguy_ovahea 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That’s when the number 0 was introduced in India.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Ah, I forgot zero was so recent.