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World History Homework Three- Model (view source)
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H5. Comment on how important "zero" is to mathematics or thought in general. You might speculate on why it took so long to discover and use it.
H5. Comment on how important "zero" is to mathematics or thought in general. You might speculate on why it took so long to discover and use it.
:The ancient Greeks and all other cultures show from their accounts of the Beginning that a concept of nothing was unknown. Always there was something, Chaos it was called, and all matter and the elements were within this chaos. Until the Indians discovered zero that is, the mathematical numeral for nothing, the place-holder of the Arabic number system. ... (Cole)
H6. The lecture says that John the Apostle, the author of the Gospel of John, was a teenager. How old do you think he was? Explain (thinking beyond the lecture and using the Bible may help).
H6. The lecture says that John the Apostle, the author of the Gospel of John, was a teenager. How old do you think he was? Explain (thinking beyond the lecture and using the Bible may help).