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I've always wondered where the origins of 0 came from to. It's a nonexistent, so how can it be a number? What if they made up another number instead of 0, how would things be now in the science/math fields? Or would there even be science or math without it?

Shrug.

 

If i believe so the mayans or some ancient civilization invented it in their number system.
2012 :X

 

How is it less of a number than 1, 2 ect? I have 1 apple, I have 2 apples, I have 0 apples. It makes sense to me, maybe I need knowledge of plataphysics to understand the question? Regardless 0 is at least 3 times as much a number as -1 and 50 times more a number than -1^1/2.

 

Numers are simply symbols for concepts. All numbers are both real and imaginary.