The Origin of Zero

What strikes you about the articles?
-What strikes is that they so much information about zero or about numbers in general because I never thought about how there use to be mathematics way back then. What I also find astonishing is how they discover these things from a long times ago, and how it went around through out the whole world that every body knew about it.

How do we decide who discovers what?
-It’s not really exact in who discovers zero because it was first discovered in Mesopotamia around 3 B.C, and then it kept getting discovered in other places through the years but wasn’t found in Rome. Later in India in the fifth century A.D it started to be considered as a number.

Who really discovered zero? Is it the person who came up with the concept of zero or the person who discovered the actual number?
-I think nobody really exactly discovered zero because if the person who came up with the concept of it being a place holder, it wouldn’t have become an actual number and the person that made it an actual number was because there was already the concept of it.

And how did the entire world come to a consensus without an efficient means of communication?
-The meaning of zero and the concept of zero was made by communication. That how it was spread, too.