📅 21 December 2012
A 21 December 2012 article uses the end of a Long Count cycle to explain Maya calendrical mathematics.
📅 21 December 2012
The 260-day ritual count and other interlocking cycles demonstrate modular thinking and systematic enumeration.
📅 21 December 2012
Dots, bars and a shell-shaped zero made it possible to represent large numbers compactly.
📅 21 December 2012
It explains that the calendar's cycle ending was a mathematical rollover, not a prediction of the world's destruction.
📅 7 October 2013
The 7 October 2013 article examines an Indian temple inscription containing circular zero symbols.
📅 7 October 2013
Numbers in the inscription show zero functioning as a written positional digit in practical measurement and donation records.
📅 7 October 2013
It emphasizes that the so-called Arabic numerals reached Europe through a longer Indian-Arabic chain of transmission.
📅 7 October 2013
The publication explores possible cultural relationships while avoiding the claim that philosophy alone mechanically produced mathematical zero.