Tag: zero
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For most of human history, zero did not exist. The Greeks, who gave us geometry, were deeply suspicious of it. They wondered: “How can ‘nothing’ be ‘something’?” It wasn’t until around the 5th century AD in India that mathematicians like Brahmagupta began treating zero not just as a space, but…
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The undefined nature of division by zero mirrors the limitations of human cognition, reminding us that not all questions are answerable within the systems we’ve built. Zero often symbolizes “nothingness,” but dividing by zero forces us to ask—can “nothing” be quantified, manipulated, or interacted with? This question parallels metaphysical debates…
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