Getting Something from Nothing: the Story of Zero

If you put yourself in the place of ancient people, it’s a wonder that anyone ever came up with a number that means nothing. It doesn’t make much sense when you are counting objects, but it turned out to be pretty handy for mathematics.

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Once the concept was there, it still wasn’t universally accepted. But time and science proved it was too useful to ignore. Dr. Hannah Fry  of the Royal Institution lays out a short version of the history of zero. -via mental_floss 


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The Island was much closer to the film Parts: The Clonus Horror. Ripoff perhaps. There was actually a lawsuit over the similarity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parts,_The_Clouns_Horror#The_Island_suit
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"If you’ve seen the film The Island, you’ve basically seen Logan’s Run with a slightly different twist and in a much toned down iteration."

Er, excuuuuuuuuuuse me, but have you even SEEN Logan's Run? The only things the two films have in common are that they are both set in the future. The similarities pretty much end there.
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