08-22-2023, 10:22 PM
Al or Nothing
All numbers between one and nine
were known from very early time
though some who live in deepest trees
got by with digits up to threes
or less - embracing me’s and thee’s.
While others, more extensively,
ran single digits up to twelve
(as we would say).
But whence came that peculiar sign
‘al zero’ which is not quite nothing
only nought, a sort of absence
present in the Middle East
or India or somewhere
which infused all mathematics
everywhere, worldwide but leaving
just one question, since so many
lived without it. Question being,
is it real?
All numbers between one and nine
were known from very early time
though some who live in deepest trees
got by with digits up to threes
or less - embracing me’s and thee’s.
While others, more extensively,
ran single digits up to twelve
(as we would say).
But whence came that peculiar sign
‘al zero’ which is not quite nothing
only nought, a sort of absence
present in the Middle East
or India or somewhere
which infused all mathematics
everywhere, worldwide but leaving
just one question, since so many
lived without it. Question being,
is it real?
Non-practicing atheist