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Thorrezyesterday at 1:17 PM2 repliesview on HN

Hmm, did the monks have no concept of 0? 0 doesn't exist in this font. However, their system can very easily support 0: just a vertical line.


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layer8yesterday at 1:33 PM

Roman numerals also don’t have a zero. In Europe, use of zero only became predominant in the 16th century

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garciansmithyesterday at 3:25 PM

Sometimes they would write "nil."

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