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[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Laugh all you want, but all of modern logic and science is based on their work.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If I had been there I could have come up with "zero" and "one" too

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The concept and discovery of zero is actually pretty complex in its own right. We take it for granted now, but it isn't an obvious concept.

https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/MathEd/index.php/2022/08/25/the-men-who-invented-zero/

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Seems pretty obvious to me.

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