i think i would add 0 to the world

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seriously if archimedes did all he did in mathematical terms without a 0 imagine what he could achieve with the notion/concept that numbers can be mixed together easily broken or extended

actually the indian numeration (wich the west call erratically arabian ) is trully usefull

even today our numeration is nothing more then a 10 digit representation and in the old days each digit had 1 angle per number to represent them properly 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

simple and effective and you could build a financial empire not because you´re smarter but because it´s easyer for you to calculate the amount of interest you can charge more easily

and back on topic the west was forçed to accept the indian numeration cause the italian merchants couldn´t use the roman numeration just as easily so they had harder times calculating the profit margins (when dealing with the arab merchants, thus many times loosing a few coins per deal that according to paretto theory on negociation is the worst thing you can since you give ground and your profit margins become smaller and smaller until you can get no more profit)