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The Greeks adapt positional math notation and the number zero. -- This is just the early part of a work in progress, comments and suggestions are welcomed in the "talk" section -- In our timeline, the Greek system for notating numbers was quite awkward This made doing math very difficult and ultimately limited their progress in the sciences. The Babylonians had developed positional notation by around 2500 b.c. Sometime between 700 and 300 bc they started using a symbol of one dot over another to represent an empty position : This was the number zero.

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rdfs:comment	The Greeks adapt positional math notation and the number zero. -- This is just the early part of a work in progress, comments and suggestions are welcomed in the "talk" section -- In our timeline, the Greek system for notating numbers was quite awkward This made doing math very difficult and ultimately limited their progress in the sciences. The Babylonians had developed positional notation by around 2500 b.c. Sometime between 700 and 300 bc they started using a symbol of one dot over another to represent an empty position : This was the number zero.
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abstract	The Greeks adapt positional math notation and the number zero. -- This is just the early part of a work in progress, comments and suggestions are welcomed in the "talk" section -- In our timeline, the Greek system for notating numbers was quite awkward This made doing math very difficult and ultimately limited their progress in the sciences. The Babylonians had developed positional notation by around 2500 b.c. Sometime between 700 and 300 bc they started using a symbol of one dot over another to represent an empty position : This was the number zero. Greek mathematicians learned much of their craft from Egypt, but they also learned from the Babylonians. For example, some historians believe that Pythagoras brought his famous theorem from the east and Diophantus brought some of the rudiments of algebra from the same region. What if the concept of position based math notation is picked up by the Greeks around 350 b.c? And what if the Babylonian zero becomes used by the Greeks, not just in between numbers, but also at the end of numbers? What if the Greeks develop a much stronger math than in OTL, which is also much easier to learn? The Babylonians had several different numbering systems including a base 60 and a base 12 system. Plato and his followers held the number 12 in mystic awe, so let's say that the Greeks adopt the base twelve system. They continue to use the Greek letters of the alphabet to represent the numbers one through twelve but use the " : " to denote zero.

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