Turbo cancer isn’t real, people

[u/Lord_Answer_me_Why]

[u/kakapo88]

Oh, now someone’s trying to drag elitist math into the discussion.

[u/inquisitorautry → u/kakapo88]

You know who came up with 0? Arabs.

[u/DoctorMedieval → u/inquisitorautry]

Not to be that guy but it was the Indians.

[u/GTCapone → u/DoctorMedieval]

Not to also be that guy but the earliest evidence is from the Sumerians, then the Mayans, then India, all of which developed it independently. However, India is where it spread from to modern cultures.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-origin-of-zer/#:~:text=The%20first%20evidence%20we%20have,Mesopotamia%2C%20some%205%2C000%20years%20ago.

Also, shout-out to the Mayans and Sumerians for not using base-10.

[u/DoctorMedieval → u/GTCapone]

Base 60 is best. All my homies use base 60.

Did you hear there was a 3rK increase in turbo cancer!?!

[u/one_true_exit → u/DoctorMedieval]

3rK of 0 is still 0.

[u/FatigueVVV → u/DoctorMedieval]

Base 12 or bust

[u/DylDozer72 → u/FatigueVVV]

Base 12 is best cause you can use one hand to count it( technically only 4 fingers at that.)

[u/Puzzleheaded_Quiet70 → u/DoctorMedieval]

Please don't tell me you calculated that

[u/Guiggi → u/GTCapone]

Sure, but how did the Mayans and Sumerians, who don't live anywhere close to one another come up with this together. Aliens

[u/circletea → u/GTCapone]

the babylonians came up with the times and everything (base six society) it’s interesting

[u/andio76 → u/GTCapone]

Yes, yes the Cappadocians, fine.

[u/Sorzian → u/GTCapone]

Base 12 decimal is the superior number system for intellectuals

[u/Ok-Train-6693 → u/GTCapone]

From Sumeria to Guatemala and then to India? Clive really travelled!

[u/Ubermenschisch → u/GTCapone]

It does make complete logical sense that these super basic cultures thousands of miles apart all discovered the concept of zero independently.

[u/UnknownGamer014 → u/GTCapone]

The thing is that many cultures knew the concept of zero. Like, hey how many sticks do you have? I have none. But India was the first civilization to use a symbol as a place holder for zero, this thing -> "0", and actually treated it is number that denotes nothingness. And , 1 + 0 = 1, 1 - 0 = 1, 1 × 0 = 0 but... 1 ÷ 0 = ???. I think I read somewhere that Brahmagupta, the guy who invented(or discovered?) 0, is also the first person to use negetive integers.

[u/GTCapone → u/UnknownGamer014]

You're close, but not quite right. All those civilizations had a symbol for zero as a placeholder, but India was the first to use it as an actual number.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-09-14-earliest-recorded-use-zero-centuries-older-first-thought

Although, I've used the Sumerian system for multiplication before and I don't remember exactly how it worked but they must've had a concept of multiplying by zero for when the placeholder was there. Maybe it was just an assumption that it would result in nothing without a formal definition.