Why wasn’t Zero (0) included in the Roman Numerals?

A mini thread:-

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A Harvard math professor named Robert Kaplan said, "Zero is in the mind, but not in the sensory world". Even in the empty reaches of space, if you can see stars, it means you’re being bathed in their electromagnetic radiation. In the darkest emptiness, there’s always something.

Perhaps a true zero means “absolute nothingness” which may have existed in the time before the Big Bang. But we can never know.

No one could ever probably say the try origin of zero but at the very beginning on 3 B.C at Mesopotamia, zero was likely first recorded....

Others say that it was truly invented by the Mayans in 4 A.D.
But the true use of it started on the mid-fifth century where the Indians discovered that Hindu astronomer and Mathematician Brahmagupta.

An artistic imagination of Brahmagupta:-

He at first stated tha a “dot” was the zero but later it was a round circle which turned out to be in use for zero. But even he presumed that it was being used as a round dot or circle way before his invention....

If we look closely, the use of zero is enormous in the current world then it’s absolutely true.

Starting from a single walk in the morning till the last moment of a day, the significance of zero and it's uses can't really be defined! Just an amazing creation of mathematics!

Even though we can't tell the exact use but zero is used as one of the most significant digit in calculation for everything.

The computer/mobile phone you’re reading this tweet on right now runs on a binary — which is strings of zeros and ones.

Without zero, modern electronics wouldn’t exist. Without zero, there’s no calculus, which means no modern engineering or automation. Without zero, much of our modern world literally falls apart!

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But a question rises for everyone, if the digit zero is so important as it is said then why did the Romans never turned used it as a numeral? And why there is no alternative sign of the zero?

Well, time and age matters. Era and human advances also matter. More on Romans below:-

the Romans never preferred to use zero as a numeral as they never thought of using it unnecessarily.

The system of Roman numerals was developed as a means of trading and bartering.

Instead of a Roman numeral they used the Latin word 'nulla', which meant zero....

Aristotle had dismissed it because you couldn't divide by zero and get a down-to-earth result.

The Romans never used their numerals for arithmetic, thus avoiding the need to keep a column empty with a zero symbol!

Addition and subtraction were done instead on an abacus or counting frame.

Roman use of the abacus (or rather, counting boards) did not eliminate the problem of the zero, it just freed them from the need for a symbol.

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The abacus' empty space caused by going from 9 to 10 is just as much a zero as an 0 on the page. Use of a Zero symbol allowed arithmatic to move from the abacus to the page!

Therefore, comes the fact that zero was never introduced or changed into a sign in the Roman numerals.

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