[B-Greek] Smooth breathing

John Barach johnbarach at shaw.ca
Wed Dec 23 16:19:05 EST 2009


In regard to the question, "Can anyone think of any other case of two 
symbols, where one means X and the other means,not the opposite of X, 
but the complete absence of X?" This was the question that the Romans 
asked when they were confronted with the concept of zero which was 
introduced by the Arabs. If the thing is nothing, then just ignore it. 
Writing the symbol "0 " for nothing is redundant. Of course the Roman 
numeral system had no place markers. I wonder if the binary system used 
in computers would ever have been invented or implemented if we still 
used the Roman numeral system.
Merry Christmas,
John






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