{"id":132797,"date":"2023-09-13T15:16:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T15:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/unit-7-discussion-chapter-4-the-zero-symbol-mgf1107\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T15:16:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T15:16:26","slug":"unit-7-discussion-chapter-4-the-zero-symbol-mgf1107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/unit-7-discussion-chapter-4-the-zero-symbol-mgf1107\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 7 discussion: chapter 4, the zero symbol | MGF1107"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In this chapter, we studied the Egyptian, Chinese, Roman, Babylonian, Mayan, and Greek numeration systems in addition to our own Hindu-Arabic number system. Please research and respond to <strong>at least two<\/strong> of the following topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which systems do\/don&#8217;t have a symbol for &#8220;zero&#8221;? If the system has a symbol for zero, what is it?<\/li>\n<li>What is the history of the development of our Hindu-Arabic symbol &#8220;0&#8221; for zero?<\/li>\n<li>Why is it important to have a symbol for zero? What confusion could arise in systems which don&#8217;t have a symbol for zero? Please explain and give an example.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Directions<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Participation in Discussion Boards is a required part of this class (5% of your overall course average).<\/p>\n<p>The requirements for this graded Discussion Board are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your initial post is due by the 3rd day of the Discussion Board and must contain at least 100 words.<\/li>\n<li>You must respond to at least two classmates, and your response posts must contain at least 50 words.<\/li>\n<li>Please answer any questions posed in the instructor&#8217;s response to your post(s).<\/li>\n<li>All posts should be relevant to the week&#8217;s topic(s) and should include substantive, correct math content.<\/li>\n<li>All posts should be grammatically correct &#8211; please use Spellcheck as necessary.<\/li>\n<li>Please use APA citation format if you get help from another source (our textbook, another book, a website, etc.). Try to use your own words!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this chapter, we studied the Egyptian, Chinese, Roman, Babylonian, Mayan, and Greek numeration systems in addition to our own Hindu-Arabic number system. Please research and respond to at least two of the following topics: Which systems do\/don&#8217;t have a symbol for &#8220;zero&#8221;? If the system has a symbol for zero, what is it? What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}