> since everyone knows the absence of something is not a number. great job, am sure hindsight and an entire lifetime of exposure to the concept had nothing to do with it.  yes, anon, the mathematical implications of zero (leave alone the philosophical ones) for arithmetic, fractions, exponents, calculus are all immediately apparent for the earliest hominid.  > actually the concept of zero is irrelevant and in fact useless,  oh damn i skipped over that part you said earlier never mind i shouldn't have bothered.
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