Changes

H5)  Zero is so abstract.  It probably took so long because we generally think of a number, something having a definite value, as representing a real quantity that we can see or feel.  Zero on the other hand represents a quantity that does not exist, it represents nothing.  It seems so rudimentary when we talk about it today, but I am sure that it took true genius to discover, not invent the quantity zero.  I do not think man can “invent” anything.  We can only discover.  If we could invent, that would have to mean that we thought of something that God did not.  Of course that is not true.  God inspired the thought, we really just “uncovered” what he left us to find.

H5)  Zero is so abstract.  It probably took so long because we generally think of a number, something having a definite value, as representing a real quantity that we can see or feel.  Zero on the other hand represents a quantity that does not exist, it represents nothing.  It seems so rudimentary when we talk about it today, but I am sure that it took true genius to discover, not invent the quantity zero.  I do not think man can “invent” anything.  We can only discover.  If we could invent, that would have to mean that we thought of something that God did not.  Of course that is not true.  God inspired the thought, we really just “uncovered” what he left us to find.