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Why do you think the development of computers depended on the concept of zero?

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with the concept of zero, we could express math (and by extension, everything) with just one concept: of there being something. This was contrasted with there not being something.

This presence/absence of something is very easily implementable in mechanical terms, which contributed to the development of hardware. So: the concept of 0 made our calculations easily physically implementable.
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