Most beautiful equation
Most beautiful equation
Posted Oct 29, 2015 11:02 UTC (Thu) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)In reply to: Most beautiful equation by pr1268
Parent article: What's new in TeX, part 2
You are confusing zero the digit with zero the number. Zero the number was know by ancient Egyptians, alongside negative numbers. I do not know why people are relating invention of positional notation with the invention of the zero, since before positional notations there were no true digits, only numbers.