Q: What strikes you about these articles?
A: Well, I think that it's impressive that 0 dates all the way back to the Sumarians!
Q: How do we decide who discovers what?
A: I think it kind of depends on various things: The context that the "0" is in can determine what language it came from, and therefore, who discovered it.
Q: Who really discovered 0?
A: Well, technically, the concept of 0 was first discovered by the Sumarians. However, the actual number 0 was first used by the Chinese, being the open circle that we use now.
Q: How did the world come to a concencus?
A: From my understanding, it kind of spread around from tradesmen going from country to country using that symbol for 0, and it kind of just caught on.
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