Mystery of zero solved

The comments are priceless, so, you should read them.<p>It is possible to do a positional system of numerals without a specific zero-digit:<p><a href="http://www.stratigery.com/crank.rant.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.stratigery.com/crank.rant.html</a><p>Clearly, the idea of zero still perplexes people.

Well it sure sounds like a cranks's writing and wikipedia never heard of it But <a href="http://www.bnrf.co.cc/index_files/Page467.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.bnrf.co.cc/index_files/Page467.htm</a> gives a formula that some one here can check out. (It looks like divide by 0 to me).