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That 1 DuDe :
It truly baffles the mind that humans lived thousands of years in pretty advanced societies without 0 as a number.
2024-03-27 15:30:47
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schlorbster 🩷 :
zero absolutely fits for zero tho
2024-03-27 19:41:48
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George1768 :
you said "Engwish" at 00:29 lol
2024-03-27 18:02:36
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some random dude :
*Indo Arabic number system
2024-03-27 17:36:14
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I would say that :
Interesting, in dutch 0 is ''nul'' which makes sense, whereas "cijfer" in dutch means Digit or Grade in English
2024-03-27 15:34:14
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Microsoft Copilot :
The delay in recognizing zero as a number can be attributed to the fact that zero is an abstract concept. It represents both absence and a number itself, which took longer to understand.
2024-03-28 02:02:41
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AmongTheHumans :
That’s so cool! AFAIK, the only 3 languages/civilizations that independently came up with the concept of zero were Arabic, Chinese, and Maya.
2024-03-27 19:04:13
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Siggelito11 :
The Swedish word for numbers is “siffror” in plural and “siffra” in singular. Could that originate from “sifr”?
2024-03-27 15:55:06
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wmmnola :
Zero doesn’t really become essential until algebra, which makes sense why the word would come from Arabic
2024-03-28 03:33:07
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Vincent Heins :
german „null“ is pretty basic
2024-03-27 15:48:21
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Dakota :
wait so this may be a stupid question, but before 0 was really around, what was used for numbers with 0 in it? eg 10, 20, etc
2024-03-27 22:45:11
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Ame🏳️⚧️🏴 :
Thai numbers sound so nice and then there's zero
2024-03-27 15:25:30
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Pixinun :
is there a reason French Spanish and English have different words for yes but all use the same no
2024-03-27 18:10:14
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ssnunss402 :
if 0 wasn't a thing, what did they use in its place for numbers 10 and above?
2024-03-28 01:44:11
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📍 your mom's house :
hi! I'm a japanese student and those chinese symbols at the beginning are identical to japanese! when we were learning numbers, my teacher told me that the symbol for zero was so complicated because
2024-04-07 00:33:56
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callmeboborama :
How did they write 10? or if it’s a different base how did they indicated places?
2024-03-27 19:44:10
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spacey.gracey :
its 霊(rei)or just ゼロ(zero) in japanese which i love. also has the kanji for rain in it
2024-03-27 18:44:30
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Shunny 🌞 :
zero in Vietnamese is không (空), which that character is also used as the translation for the Buddhist śūnya(-ta). idk if it's the actual etymology, but it's cool to consider
2024-03-28 00:44:16
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Atomik141 :
What about ‘null’ in Italian?
2024-03-27 22:00:22
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szybrr :
Why are do some languages end in -ish eg: English and -uese eg: Portuguese
2024-03-27 15:36:05
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Daniel B. :
The adhd has me in a vise grip and I’m about to go down a rabbit hole- do humans innately know how to count things?
2024-03-27 16:59:52
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Ayyy :
Does the rune predate the word? Ancient me would have held up a fist to mean 0 without language and would have drawn that as “0” I think?
2024-03-27 19:59:17
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beelzebublovers :
Literally why did it take so long for people to come up with and understand a number for nothing?
2024-03-28 01:01:59
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james :
Linguistics and mathmatics have SO many connections, one being how unique zero is as a word and concept
2024-03-28 03:54:09
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