Answers for Milinda

[Keenir]

The Greeks didn't have the number zero; it's not entirely clear that the Indians had it at this point, either, actually.

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Zero.html

my reference about Zero as of late has been the book Zero: the Biography of an Idea by Charles Seife.


best of luck on your endevours.

 

[cow defender]

Is this thread dead?

 

[Faeelin]

What, did you think I'd carry this to 2007?

I just got to the point where I was like, "Meh, it's getting silly".

 

[cow defender]

just wonderin cause the last posts- never finished it while you were writing just did the other day


damn good

 

[EvolvedSaurian]

What, did you think I'd carry this to 2007?

I had my hopes.

Oh yes, it's a bump.

 

[Lysandros Aikiedes]

Rivetting!!! This is the sort of thing I'm looking for!

 

[Faeelin]

Rivetting!!! This is the sort of thing I'm looking for!

Aww, shucks.

I'm actually aware there are a few Maguffins in it, but I'm still pretty happy.

 

[Lysandros Aikiedes]

If and when you finish this TL, did you intend for the Hellenized and Celticized Buddhist Cults, the Stoics or the Neo-Pythagorans to survive past the ancient world in some form or another?