Can anyone tell me the story of zero.?
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Zero, zip, zilch - how often has a question been answered by one of these words? Countless, no doubt. Yet behind this seemingly simple answer conveying nothing lays the story of an idea that took many centuries to develop, many countries to cross, and many minds to comprehend. Understanding and working with zero is the basis of our world today; without zero we would lack calculus, financial accounting, the ability to make arithmetic computations quickly, and, especially in today's connected world, computers. The story of zero is the story of an idea that has aroused the imagination of great minds across the globe.\n\nWhen anyone thinks of one hundred, two hundred, or seven thousand the image in his or her mind is of a digit followed by a few zeros. The zero functions as a placeholder; that is, three zeroes denotes that there are seven thousands, rather than only seven hundreds. If we were missing one zero, that would drastically change the amount. Just imagine having one zero erased (or added) to your salary! Yet, the number system we use today - Arabic, though it in fact came originally from India - is relatively new. For centuries people marked quantities with a variety of symbols and figures, although it was awkward to perform the simplest arithmetic calculations with these number systems.\n\nThe Sumerians were the first to develop a counting system to keep an account of their stock of goods - cattle, horses, and donkeys, for example. The Sumerian system was positional; that is, the placement of a particular symbol relative to others denoted its value. The Sumerian system was handed down to the Akkadians around 2500 BC and then to the Babylonians in 2000 BC. It was the Babylonians who first conceived of a mark to signify that a number was absent from a column; just as 0 in 1025 signifies that there are no hundreds in that number. Although zero's Babylonian ancestor was a good start, it would still be centuries before the symbol as we know it appeared.\n\nThe renowned mathematicians among the Ancient Greeks, who learned the fundamentals of their math from the Egyptians, did not have a name for zero, nor did their system feature a placeholder as did the Babylonian. They may have pondered it, but there is no conclusive evidence to say the symbol even existed in their language. It was the Indians who began to understand zero both as a symbol and as an idea. \n\nBrahmagupta, around 650 AD, was the first to formalize arithmetic operations using zero. He used dots underneath numbers to indicate a zero. These dots were alternately referred to as 'sunya', which means empty, or 'kha', which means place. Brahmagupta wrote standard rules for reaching zero through addition and subtraction as well as the results of operations with zero. The only error in his rules was division by zero, which would have to wait for Isaac Newton and G.W. Leibniz to tackle.\n\nBut it would still be a few centuries before zero reached Europe. First, the great Arabian voyagers would bring the texts of Brahmagupta and his colleagues back from India along with spices and other exotic items. Zero reached Baghdad by 773 AD and would be developed in the Middle East by Arabian mathematicians who would base their numbers on the Indian system. In the ninth century, Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khowarizmi was the first to work on equations that equaled zero, or algebra as it has come to be known. He also developed quick methods for multiplying and dividing numbers known as algorithms (a corruption of his name). Al-Khowarizmi called zero 'sifr', from which our cipher is derived. By 879 AD, zero was written almost as we now know it, an oval - but in this case smaller than the other numbers. And thanks to the conquest of Spain by the Moors, zero finally reached Europe; by the middle of the twelfth century, translations of Al-Khowarizmi's work had weaved their way to England.\n\nThe Italian mathematician, Fibonacci, built on Al-Khowarizmi's
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Yeah, there is no zero in Roman numerals.  The number zero was discovered in India and was introduced to European countries through the Arabs, but well after the heyday of the Romans.  When Romans wanted to write "0," they would either write "nulla" or "nihil."  Check out the article:
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Zero - is it positive or negative?
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you probably mean the punk band from Arizona...\n\nAuthority Zero.\n\nyou can find all you want to know about them at \n\nwww.authorityzero.com
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current thought approximate its origin to India circa 1500 B.C. by a well known mathematician named Aryabhata. \n\nthe invention of zero is an important development in human abstract thought because the counting system was initially created to "count" things and not "nothing".  \n\ni am pretty sure it was also concieved independently by other cultures as well but written and archeological evidence at present best support the India origin.\n\ncheck wikipedia for "zero".
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Bell, The Development of Mathematics, suggests that zero was independently developed by the Hindus, Babylonians and Maya. The best source known of is Morris Kline, Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times (Oxford, 1972; paperback). He reports that zero symbols are found in Alexandrian Greek documents.
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http://home.comcast.net/~neardeath/nde/001_pages/95.html  His name is Daniel.  This link will take you to his story.
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Oh! I love that story. We read it last semester. Have you read the story? It's really funny to read it and then think in the gutters. Our sub, Scott, taught us that. lol Anyway... okay... hm... thesis statement. \n\n"There are stories about fish and the like, but none quite like this. The boy in the story learns to grow after learning that his beloved Sheila is not what he thought she was. In the story the boy struggling with what he loves and what he thinks he is in love with. ([The story teaches about letting go, forgetting and growing up] <-- thesis)." \n\nOkay, to clarify the thesis:\n\nLetting go: Letting go of the fish and moving on.\nForgetting: He forgets that he can't very well catch a fish without her seeing, so he loses it. \nGrowing up: After he learns that Sheila Mant is not what he thought she but, but in fact a skany who9re (lol) he learns to move on and grow up. \n\nI hope this helped.
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Duh????\n\nRead the title, you'll find the answer, or better yet read the story...
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cant find anything about it. what it about?
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No idea ...please tell ??
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This is the case\ncircumferences no where centres everywhere\n\nJust try,  even you can not imagine NOTHING, because before imagining that, your mind was already there, thereby the NOTHINGNESS is voilated.\n Even the 'ZERO' is not the one we usually think.\nIt is a compromising point of  +(Plus) and - (Minus) infinity !!!!!. Even mathametically all is filled in 'ZERO'. Enven any number, say 100, it is 0-1000, that is to say you have borrowed it from 'ZERO'\nIt enough for now,  there is musch more to say about 'ZERO'
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Less than Zero with Morton Downey Jr.... Andrew McCarthy and Jamie Gertz who has never been better. I got the impression I was not watching a movie but was spying on a group of rich kids and the empty lives they lead... through the lense of a camera....struck a chord with me...deeply. \nAwesome soundtrack....especially Bangles opening song...slice right out of time.\n\nBut there are three others... \n\nCome Back, Little Sheba (1952) \nA movie version of the play by William Inge, COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA is the story of "Doc" and "Lola" Delaney -- a sadly aging couple whose attention seems drawn undistractably to lost dreams and failed ambitions. A grim and cold recovering alcoholic, Doc seems only able to numb the pain of his black-and-white existence with drink. Lola, on the other hand, desperate for warmth and affection, still longs for the little lost dog named "Sheba" missing for nearly a year which had provided her so much companionship and joy. Into this mix comes Marie, a carefree young co-ed happily dabbling at love and romance. When she rents a room from the Delaneys, their home is suddenly inhabited with the ghosts of their own failings -- Doc's professional failings, Lola's failings as a wife and mother, and the shared failings of their marriage.\n\nThe Morning After (1974) (TV)\nRichard Matheson's masterful screenplay is a genuine classic as well as Dick Van Dyke in the performance of a lifetime...for his mindblowing portrayal of an alcoholic. devastating ending...\n\n\nDeadly Care (1987) (TV)\nTrue story about a nurse's descent into the nightmarish world of substance abuse which endangers her life and the lives of her patients. \nCheryl Ladd puts in a command performance as a woman bitten by the disease of addiction...after a few minutes I forgot I was wtaching a Charlie's Angel. Ladd nails it ...good stuff.\n\n\nOh yes...almost forgot...\n\nGo Ask Alice (1973) (TV)\nA high school girl gets heavily involved in drugs, finally realizes she needs help. \n\nhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068644/
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u need the key, i have it and i can email it to u, do u have the main one or the expanstion zero hour??\n\n\nrock on General!
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The ancient Indians first completely discovered the "0". They were the ones to settle in the Indus River Valley (You know, the whole Aryan story). However, the Babylonians left a space in their numeral system where 0 was, and the Greeks seemed to have some understanding of it, but thought "How can nothing be something."\n\nNOTE: Brahmagupta first used the zero in his work in A.D. 628. In case you were wondering, he was from the ancient Indian civilization.
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something close to zero
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poor fella! nobody's answered. there is a story, a complicated one for that matter. it ties into the bag-on-line adventures, a couple comic books written by singer claudio sanchez that are quite sci-fi in nature. umm... hit up the coheedandcambria.com links and see if you get some more in depth info. hope that helps and be prepared to be mindboggled :P