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Now our numbers come from India about one and a half thousand years ago, that's where
the zero's invented in the sort of the system that became ours. Before that there were numbers, there were Roman numbers and there's Greek numbers before then, and Phoenician numbers,
way back to the first numbers. And the first numbers are about 6,000 to 8,000 years old and emerged in Sumeria in Sumer which is now in present day Iraq.
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1. (Arith.) A cipher; nothing; naught.