A Lot of Something About Nothing - Zero

Most people are familiar with Roman numeral counting such as I, II, III, IV, V… representing our number of 1,2,3,4,5……

So then, what is the Roman numeral for zero?

There is no Roman numeral for zero as zero did not come into play into Western mathematics until about 1200 A.D.  The ancients did not really require the use of zero in their arithmetic.

Although zero is nothing, our mathematics is nothing without it.

The divisibility rule for zero is undefined.  Try dividing a number on your electronic calculator or in a computer program and it will return an error code.  Undefined is a term used when mathematicians have problems explaining a concept.  

Below is an interesting video “Zero and One” posted by TheAlexmeister:

For a historical perspective, the “Math Movie Zero” posted by SpookyKat4 provided different insight: