Frank and Ernest by Thaves for July 16, 2014
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Greek Mathematics - Archimedes, Euclid, Pythagoras Ernest: The ancient Greeks didn't have a symbol for zero? Frank: They left "nothing" to the imagination.
demtrug over 10 years ago
Pythagoras believed numbers were the ultimate reality. So if it’s not anything, it couldn’t be a number.
TREEINTHEWIND over 10 years ago
If a business had no profit for 1 year and earned $100 the next, what is the percentage of increase? Is it an infinite percent (%) of increase? This would look good on a sales report ………………..(Who invented the concept of %)?
TREEINTHEWIND over 10 years ago
It’s all Greek to me……………………………
markjoseph125 over 10 years ago
Great comic!
Perkycat over 10 years ago
Love this one!
neverenoughgold over 10 years ago
So, zero can be anything you want it to be?.I looked it up in a dictionary; and wholly cow, it appears there are more definitions than I dreamed possible…
K M over 10 years ago
I’m reminded of a cartoon where a huge, ornate zero is being carried on a plush sedan chair while people are bowing and scraping to it as it passes. One bystander asks another, “Is nothing sacred?”
TREEINTHEWIND over 10 years ago
Is that a Rubik’s cube sitting on the box next to the abacus?