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From: a324nowa@cdf.toronto.edu (Nowaczek Jacek Adam)
Subject: Re: Zero, a bad concept for logic, math and science?
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In article <3122365A.962@cyrix.com>,
Chuck Kincy  <chuck.kincy@cyrix.com> wrote:
>Mark Alexander wrote:
>> Lawlor makes a case for the natural system being superior to the
>> present system.
>Our modern system of mathematics recognizes both.  I don't know 
>where you get off saying that one is "superior".  Such reasoning
>is irrelevant.
A couple of years ago I read in a history of Chinese philosophy that
the oldest known records of "0" come from Sumatra and what is now
Cambodia. If I can recall correctly, both records belong to the VII
century. Isn't it interesting. Both the time and place of origin?

