Around-n-around we go, When we meet we have a zero !
What do you think is the most powerful tool we possess as human being?...any thoughts? Yes it is definitely this power of thinking, the power of imagination that we possess - the greatest gift that we are privileged to have. We live in this mere 3 dimensional world and see how beautifully we have extrapolated our ideas to portray the multi-dimensional universe. But behind these theories, hypothesis or 'imaginations', the backbone has always been mathematics and its elegant equations and the fundamental of which are numbers. Numbers never lie and so does the mathematics. So let's take a voyage in this ocean of truth today ! Numbers and therefore counting are integral part of our daily life. Even these words that you are now reading on the screen have been coded with a series of zero's and one's. But it is an interesting story as how these digits and numbers came to dominate our world. Presently, the earliest known archaeological evidence of any form of writing or cou...