Comments on: The Story of Zero And Its Fear in Ancient Times

By: piyush

piyush — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:58:47 +0000

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Movie Soundtracks On CD — Wed, 26 May 2010 07:10:45 +0000

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By: Daniel@spanish translation

Daniel@spanish translation — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:14:11 +0000

To be honest I did not know there were so many number systems, nor systems without zero. The only reference I had are the Roman numerals, but evidently the Hindus and Egyptians are much older.

By: kkraghuthaman

kkraghuthaman — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:41:02 +0000

Ancient Indians excelled in both language and number applications.
Grammar relating Singilar, dual and plural are integral part of Sanskrit.Number sense adding makes a sentence resonably precise and greately sensible. Number and language are thus related to one another. Number adds precise condition to sentence,which also makes it sensible!
Count 1, 2, 3, 4…infinity is a usual one to one count!
Count 0, 1, 2, 3…(infinity-1, which is an all 9s number) is ancient Indian Count which is one less than each number of usual count. Zero is in it.
Zero is an ancient Indian knowledge and Vedic sutra that has been disclosed by Shri Jagadguru Sankaracharya reveals it.
A related number number application helps us to mentally compute (relating zero-start 2D square matrix positions) any number of digit answers by relating appropriate matrix positions.
Google search Vedicmatrix zero for details of related number application!

By: Kelly @ Cycleops Fluid 2

Kelly @ Cycleops Fluid 2 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:24:07 +0000

I knew that not all early civilizations had a zero, but definitely didn’t know all this information! Really interesting read.

By: Rudy

Rudy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:02:41 +0000

We are fortunate to have the zero now. Because building computers and software would not have been possible without a zero-> binary system. Great article by the way.

By: mark

mark — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:05:57 +0000

it makes me wonder if ppl really even know any roman numerals anymore.

By: Brian@cosmetic surgery

Brian@cosmetic surgery — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:04:08 +0000

Really Nice Post , I was not aware that there were some laws against zero in old times