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Re: [Phys-l] roman numerals


On Feb 1, 2010, at 8:02 PM, David Willey wrote:

A student asked me a question today that I had not considered before.
"What is the Roman Numeral for zero?"
My answer was "there is not one", but am I right, and if so, how did
they cope?

As far as I know they also did not have negative numbers. The word "nothing" could be used instead of a number.


Ludwik's new book (AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FORMER COMMUNIST) see:

http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/mybook2.html