(January 18, 2022 at 8:04 am)Jehanne Wrote:(January 18, 2022 at 7:59 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Does zero occur in nature... yes (I have zero trees outside my house) .... so zero is natural
Yes, it does occur in nature, but, the Romans got along just fine without any numerical representation of it.
They got along fine without algebra as well.
Math does not occur in nature. Math is made up to make sense of nature. Things lived perfectly well as far as they know for 4 billion years without any hint of effort to make sense of nature.