THE ORiGiN Of ZERO?

What strikes you about the articles? The thing that strikes me about the articles is that they talk a lot about the origin in where the number zero came from, and how people used it in different states and countries. It also stiked me that it was mostly geography that had to do with the existence of the number and because people found evidence that they used it 5,000 years ago. This number is really easy to understand because it’s like if it didn’t exist but it has a symbol that replaces a number, but means a different place value holder. There was a part which caught my eye, it talked about how in different states they use this number in different forms and was odd seeing it used like that in these days.


How do we decide who discovers what? When someone gets his/her invention named after them.

Who really discovered zero? In the articles it doesn’t really tell who discovers zero, but it says where it came from and how long ago it traveled to different kinds of people. However, one of the articles explains somewhat of where this number originally came from, because Charles Seife had given some information.
"There are at least two discoveries, or inventions, of zero," says Charles Seife, author of Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Viking, 2000). "The one that we got the zero from came from the Fertile Crescent." It first came to be between 400 and 300 B.C. in Babylon, Seife says, before developing in India, wending its way through northern Africa and, in Fibonacci's hands, crossing into Europe via Italy.

Is it the person who came up with the concept of zero or the person who discovered the actual number? It was the person who came up with the concept of the number zero because he introduced it to everybody but he disn't quite discover it.
And how did the entire world come to a consensus without an efficient means of communication? Because the number zero came to being from one country to the other and that's how it spread all over the world but it had a differet symbol to it.