I have it on good authority [The History Channel] that the 0 was an Indian invention.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Greg Freemyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg.freemyer@gmail.com">greg.freemyer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">What's the roman numeral for zero?<br>
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I don't think that had one. It's a relatively advanced concept.<br>
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On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Geoffrey <<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Charles Shapiro wrote:<br>
>> Ha! When I started programming, we had to use ONLY ONES 'cause ZEROS<br>
>> WEREN'T INVENTED YET!!!!<br>
><br>
> I think 0s came first???<br>
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>><br>
>> -- CHS<br>
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>> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Chris Fowler<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 21:16 -0500, Mark Wright wrote:<br>
>>>> I used to know some guys who could look at the 1 and 0's that were<br>
>>>> saved at each clock cycle in the cpus and tell you what operation the<br>
>>>> computer was doing and if it was working. Still blows my mind.<br>
>>> It is called necessity.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Think about us that started with Linux near the beginning. There were<br>
>>> no GUI configuration programs. There was no Ubuntu to make most of the<br>
>>> hardware just work. We used vi to configure X. We compiled a kernel<br>
>>> specific to our computer. Out of necessity we became masters of the OS<br>
>>> and today, now that Linux is basically a walk in the park, it was a huge<br>
>>> benefit to us. When the "easy to use" disiti fails to be plug-n-play we<br>
>>> can usually work around it.<br>
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