Jeff Liebermann wrote:

> Such things are fairly important. For example, did you ever notice
> that Roman Numerals do not have a zero or a null? There was a half
> hearted attempt at inventing zero or null (nulla), but fortunately
> that failed for many centuries. Rome survived much decadence and some
> really weird Emperors without much difficulty.


There's the troubling rumour that Zero fiddled while Rome burned. It's
simply not rue.

mike