Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

I'm nearly there wilbs ,

Still waiting for the sp to rise.

ouch!--if anymore of mine plunge today--I'll be joining the chap on the bench as a bag lady!!!

Don' worry moneyplus ,,we'll have a wipround,, don't end up like this..

cheers jimmy!

nooooooooo, jimmy!!!! don't do that!!! i wont sleep tonight wondering what you were going to say!!!!

I can help you Bos. Jimmy was gonna say " ". There. You can sleep easy now, my friend.
Alan

Who invented the zero? 4000 years ago.

The arabs wasn't it?
Still, inventing nothing is easy. I've invented nothing. It's inventing something thats really difficult.
Alan

Think i was in a bit of a daze yesterday chaps.

Al
Not the Arabs.

You can't claim to invent nothing. It's just lyimg around everywhere. Discovered I can just about live with, but definitely not invent.
Alan

The zero was invented, prior to the invention there was only I to 9 if it had not been invented life would not be how it is today i.e. no money, no computers
Who invented the zero, come on jimmy have a go.

Thats easy driver.

The nr. zero was invented independently in India and
by the Maya. In India a decimal system was used, like
ours, but they used an empty space for zero up to 3rd
Century BC. This was confusing for an empty space was
also used to separate numbers, and so they invented
the dot for a zero. The first evidence for the use of
the symbol that we now know as zero stems from the 7th
century AD. The Maya invented the number zero for
their calendars in the 3rd century AD.
The number zero reached European civilisation through
the Arabs after 800 AD. The Greek and Roman did not
need the number zero for they did their calculations
on an abacus. The name 'zero' comes from the arab 'sifr'.

I hope this clears up the matter.

It does clear it, but you do not get the prize because you always cheat.

Whats a prise?

wilbs
A prise is a prize, don't you know any thing.

Bollacks to all this intellectual talk..