[Thorrez]

Hmm, did the monks have no concept of 0? 0 doesn't exist in this font. However, their system can very easily support 0: just a vertical line.

[layer8]

Roman numerals also don’t have a zero. In Europe, use of zero only became predominant in the 16th century

[cvoss]

Indeed, it was a hot topic for Shakespeare.

https://theconversation.com/shakespeare-by-numbers-how-mathe...

[garciansmith]

Sometimes they would write "nil."

[lysp]

So the concept of null?