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"Nik": The Mesoamerican Representation of Zero (2021)

66 pointsby shawndumas10 months ago

3 comments

dtagames10 months ago
I always find these articles about highly visual subjects that don&#x27;t show any images to be a little bit under-researched. The Maya language and numeral system is fascinating in part <i>because</i> of its visual beauty. Maya text and design elements are widely incorporated into architecture and media in the region, even today.<p>This article showed us none of that. Not even a single image of a zero.
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paleotrope10 months ago
&quot;It is noteworthy to point out that in Spanish or English, there are no expressions of time that go any further than two days into the past or the future;&quot;<p>I&#x27;ll think about this more next week.
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sbarre10 months ago
Maybe only slightly on topic, years ago I highly enjoyed this book:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Zero:_The_Biography_of_a_Dangerous_Idea" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Zero:_The_Biography_of_a_Dange...</a>