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msaharia | 3 years ago

I think this article is confusing the discovery of an inscription of zero to the concept of zero. The latter would predate the former.

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reil_convnet|3 years ago

> The latter would predate the former.

Agree, I think it would have existed from the day a cat ate all chickens and one had to tell their neighbor they have no more chicken in house. Just that the neanderthal or Cro-Magnon did not need to write it down for the modern paleontologist to discover.