[NBLUG/talk] The Romans' ban on zero

[Steve Zimmerman]

Eric Eisenhart once astutely remarked that the Romans
banned the numeral "0".  Could this ban have some
relation to the modern-day mathematical ban on
division by zero?

I mean, why is division by zero banned, anyway?
0 / 0 = 1 and n / 0 = 0, where n != 0.  Is it not obvious that
any nonzero real number divided by zero equals zero, because
zero will go into that number zero times?  


	-- Steve Zimmerman