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Thorrez
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Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian nu...
Hmm, did the monks have no concept of 0? 0 doesn't exist in this font. However, their system can very easily support 0: just a vertical line.
layer8
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Roman numerals also don’t have a zero. In Europe, use of zero only became predominant in the 16th century
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cvoss
7 hours ago
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Indeed, it was a hot topic for Shakespeare.
https://theconversation.com/shakespeare-by-numbers-how-mathe...
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garciansmith
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Sometimes they would write "nil."
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lysp
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So the concept of null?
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