Was watching Engineering an Empire on the history channel and the episode was covering the Mayan empire.
They were talking about how the Mayan empire “created” (don’t remember the exact wording used) the concept of zero. Which aided them in the designing and building of their structures and temples. And due to them knowing the concept of zero they were much more advanced than European empires/civilizations. If that’s true then how were much older civilizations able to build the structures they did without the concept of zero?
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You’re conflating some things. Zero as a concept developed amongst multiple cultures independently thousands of years ago, including Ancient Greece. The type of zero and decimal notation that we use today is a combination of Indian and Arabic in origin.
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