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Oh, dude, in the ancient Greek numeral system, they didn't have a symbol for zero like we do now. They were all about counting with letters, not numbers. So, yeah, zero was a big fat no-show in their math party. Like, imagine trying to balance your checkbook back then. Good luck with that!

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Oh, what a happy little question! In the ancient Greek numeral system, they didn't have a symbol for zero like we do today. They had a system based on letters of the alphabet to represent numbers, starting with 1 for the first letter, and so on. It's fascinating to see how different cultures have unique ways of counting and expressing numbers.

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Well, honey, ancient Greeks were all about their fancy symbols, but they didn't have time for zeros in their numeral system. They were too busy inventing democracy and philosophy to bother with a big ol' goose egg. So, in short, nope, no zeros for the ancient Greeks - they kept it simple and to the point.

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15y ago

There was no need for a zero in their system. We have 9 numbers plus the zero symbol. We add a zero on to the end of a number to convert it to tens and two zeros to convert it to hundreds and so on. The Romans simply had different symbols for tens and hundreds. For example we would write 1, 10, 20, 40, 50, 100 and 200 but the same numbers as Roman numerals would be I, X, XX, XL, L, C and CC, done quite simply with no need for a zero. In the middle ages monks, who still used Roman numerals and wrote in Latin, began to used the symbol N to represent zero (from the Latin Nullae meaning nothing).

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16y ago

In general, the number zero did not have its own Roman numeral, but a primitive form (nulla) was known by medieval computists (responsible for calculating the date of Easter). They included zero (via the Latin word nulla meaning "none") as one of nineteen epacts, or the age of the moon on March 22. The first three epacts were nullae, xi, and xxii (written in minuscule or lower case). The first known computist to use zero was Dionysius Exiguus in 525. Only one instance of a Roman numeral for zero is known. About 725, Bede or one of his colleagues used the letter N, the initial of nullae, in a table of epacts, all written in Roman numerals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals

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16y ago

In roman numerals there is no zero. Click on the link below for more information.

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12y ago

Yes but it's never used because the positional place value of Roman numerals are self evident.

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No.

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No, the Ancient Greek number system did not use zero as a place value, or number for that matter.


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