On 2015-09-09 18:59, William Ray Wing wrote:

On Sep 9, 2015, at 1:22 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:



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I think my favourite is the guy who claims that the reason natural languages
all count from 1 is because the Romans failed to invent zero. (What about
languages that didn't derive from Latin, say, Chinese?)

Right.  Note that the Arabs, who DID invent zero, still count from one.

No, they didn't invent zero.

Bill


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