(August 22, 2011 at 7:00 pm)Epimethean Wrote: Godnose, is the numerical value of zero difficult to understand?
Actually,yes I think it is . Perhaps that's why it took so long to discover. Eg unknown to the Romans..
In philosophy we had to write a tutorial paper on "what is a number?" Not as easy as you might think.Try it.
Just because we were taught something from childhood does not mean the concept is necessarily easy or obvious.