ZERO
Across
- 3. the wolf caver used this five based counting system.
- 6. India was introduced to the concept of zero by the _________, who only used zero as a placeholder for dates.
- 8. Early mathematical systems started with this low base system.
- 11. This God was both the creator and destroyer of the world.
- 12. Zeno's most famous puzzle was the _______.
- 15. These mathematicians had no significant distinction between shapes and numbers.
- 16. a group of people that created a number system out of pictures representing different amounts of numbers in a base ten system.
- 17. The goal of this religion is to free yourself from having your soul transmigrate into other people to be reincarnated.
- 19. Was born around 490 BC at the beginning of the Persian wars.
Down
- 1. The biggest grouping in the Greek number system.
- 2. Zero hit the USS _____ like a torpedo.
- 4. One of the chief leaders in a mathematical cult.
- 5. The ____ point is an infinitesimal dot on the canvas that represents a spot infinitely far away from the viewer.
- 7. Zeno's successor.
- 9. A five pointed star.
- 10. Another name for Leonardo of Pisa.
- 13. The Pythagoreans tossed _____ overboard, drowning him.
- 14. left out of the mathematical framework because it was not required.
- 18. They calculated the birth of Christ wrong by four years.