How would you know whether an ancient culture had zero?
Read OriginalThis article discusses the challenge of determining whether an ancient culture's number system included a zero, using the analogy of Excel's bijective base-26 labeling. It explores statistical methods like digit frequency and contextual clues, such as knowing the value of a symbol, to infer the base and presence of zero. The piece highlights the difficulty of making such inferences from limited samples and emphasizes the importance of context over pure statistics.
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