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Talk:Mystery:Did Eternity Originate With Christianity? (view source)
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:::: Ok: [http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/1122-the-maya-civilization-maya-numerals-and-calendar This one], [http://www.mayacalendar.com/mayamath.html this one], [http://library.thinkquest.org/C004577/math2.php3 this one], [http://www.authenticmaya.com/mathematics.htm this one] and [http://mathsforeurope.digibel.be/Numerals.htm this one]. The high point of the Mayan civilization was indeed from the 4th century onwards, but of course they did not suddenly rise out of nothing. The earliest Mayan city states arose several centuries before Christ. Oh, and TK, of course one doesn't need carbon dating for that. It's a calender (in fact, one that is still in use in several communities), you can just count back and convert to the Christian calender. After all, we don't need carbon dating in order to be able to calculate the day of Julius Ceasar's death either.[[User:JosephJackson|JosephJackson]] 00:42, 5 August 2009 (EDT)
:::: Ok: [http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/1122-the-maya-civilization-maya-numerals-and-calendar This one], [http://www.mayacalendar.com/mayamath.html this one], [http://library.thinkquest.org/C004577/math2.php3 this one], [http://www.authenticmaya.com/mathematics.htm this one] and [http://mathsforeurope.digibel.be/Numerals.htm this one]. The high point of the Mayan civilization was indeed from the 4th century onwards, but of course they did not suddenly rise out of nothing. The earliest Mayan city states arose several centuries before Christ. Oh, and TK, of course one doesn't need carbon dating for that. It's a calender (in fact, one that is still in use in several communities), you can just count back and convert to the Christian calender. After all, we don't need carbon dating in order to be able to calculate the day of Julius Ceasar's death either.[[User:JosephJackson|JosephJackson]] 00:42, 5 August 2009 (EDT)
:::: In fact, the zero can be used in two different ways: as a symbol indicating the lack of a positional value in positional numerical systems, or as a number properly speaking. An example of the first use is the number 101: The zero is there to express that there are no tenths in the number “one hundred and one”. The second use involves performing arithmetic with the zero as if it were any old number. Mayans, and Babylonians even before them, had a positional numerical system, so they needed a symbol to express that a certain positional value was void, centuries before the Indian mathematicians. This symbol is known as the “zero” of these cultures. However, they did not use zero as a number, since they did not perform arithmetic operations with it. The Indian mathematicians were the first to develop the now familiar rules of arithmetic with zero, and hence the first to use zero as a number.--[[User:Quetzalcoatl|Quetzalcoatl]] 16:52, 9 August 2009 (EDT)