ZERO

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