Re: Zero

From: Nils Weinander <nils_w_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 08:58:58 +0100


Simo Bray:
>
> Okay next question, who invented the concept of zero in Glorantha? Has it
> been discovered yet? I think it was the Dragonewts (see the Draconic poem
> Ouroboros) who them passed it on to the EWF, it was then a concept stolen by
> the God Learners through whom it travelled rapidly around the world.

The Vithelan mystics kow of Zero. Whether they use it is another thing. They have a numerically based cosmogony and I have suggested a monastery where the monks sit around doing maths, searching for the number which is neither zero nor non-zero.



Nils Weinander
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