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Publication Date: 2015
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The Trouble with Zero
Lewis, Robert
Australian Mathematics Teacher, v71 n3 p20-21 2015
The history of the number zero is an interesting one. In early times, zero was not used as a number at all, but instead was used as a place holder to indicate the position of hundreds and tens. This article briefly discusses the history of zero and challenges the thinking where divisions using zero are used.
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