Zero 10|Basel
- yoruda
- Jun 23
- 1 min read
Welcome to Basel
1+1=10
Zero is much more than nothing, it's actually a some of a thing
One is much more with an O, without it, it's no gogo
Zero fulfills a central role in mathematics. As a digit, 0 enables positional numeral systems, for example:
We use base 10, with just 10 digits and the position of each digit, we can present any number. The zero appears each time a new column ‘opens’.
By 1770 BC, the Egyptians had a symbol for zero in accounting texts. The symbol nfr, meaning beautiful.
36 BC is the earliest recorded use of zero in America, the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar required zero as a placeholder within its vigesimal (base-20) positional numeral system. Zero became an integral part of Maya numerals.
Today, the Hindu–Arabic numeral system (base ten) is the most commonly used system, all around the world. However, the binary numeral system (base two) is used in almost all computers and electronic devices, it still needs the zero…
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