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2. Mathematics and the number zero
Somewhere between 36 B.C. and A.D. 130, the Babylonians and, ultimately, Ptolemy formally helped people to see that numbering systems needed to be continuous and should include the very revolutionary idea of a specific number for the concept of zero. Greek philosophers fought this, of course, wondering how can nothing be something?
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