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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by MTZ@lemmy.world to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
 

It's funny that they might call this a PSYOP because they use disinfo and misinfo on every type of media imaginable, on a worldwide scale the likes of which most can not even imagine and would never believe. internet bots were sent by the millions to destroy america, lol. and every day, there are more. every accusation, and all.

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[โ€“] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

i thought the indians already put a dot in place to denote zero?

From the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeral_system

Indian mathematicians, such as Brahmagupta in the 7th century, played a crucial role in formalizing arithmetic rules and the concept of zero, which was later refined by scholars like Al-Khwarizmi in the Islamic world.

[โ€“] marcos@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

On the sequence from your quote:

This system was established by the 7th century in India, but was not yet in its modern form because the use of the digit zero had not yet been widely accepted. Instead of a zero sometimes the digits were marked with dots to indicate their significance, or a space was used as a placeholder. The first widely acknowledged use of zero was in 876.

Things were not very consistent at that time. AFAIK the most common was to leave empty spaces, but several people tried to cope with it by different methods. Also AFAIK, that dot was a mere typographic icon, to make the empty space clear, but it wasn't well accepted that you should actually put something there.