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   Alex Hanna (alex@dair-community.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 03:00:26 JST Alex Hanna

   Lying in bed brainworm: why didn't the Arabs also create NULL while also creating zero.

   Alternative formulation: what's the history of NULL values

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     Michael Szell (mszll@datasci.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 03:00:29 JST Michael Szell

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     @alex Also curious about the history. In any case, this is an interesting "infographic" that I show my students to make them aware of different concepts of "nothing" and "something"

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