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   @Codeki @JollyR @Umlaut @BowsacNoodle I can't even remember how the classical Greeks represented numbers in writing anymore.
   I remember that babylonia inherited sumer's base 60 system that we still use for seconds, minutes and degree arcs
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     @Kang_Kong3 @JollyR @Umlaut @BowsacNoodle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_numerals

     But they refused to add a Zero to their own system, so when they were forced to use it, they used the Babylonian Zero.

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     @JollyR @Umlaut @BowsacNoodle Zero didn't really come into use as a number until well after Rome fell. Iirc 1-9 are based on Arabic symbols and the jeets actually came up with zero
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     @Kang_Kong3 @JollyR @Umlaut @BowsacNoodle Nah, the Egyptians, Babylonians, and Greeks all knew of Zero. It's just that the Greeks had a philosophical hatred of it.

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     • BowserNoodle ☦️
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     .. which still leaves the question -- is there a year '0' or does it jump from -1 to +1?
     
     (we may have been a year off, all these centuries)