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[โ€“] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Heh. I'm sure we all know a few of those non-"recent" humans that can't seem to grasp the concept. I just hope they're in lower numbers than expected this November. ๐Ÿ˜ถ

[โ€“] elxeno@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

Found the article just for this part

...recent humans. (Fibonacci introduced zero to Western mathematics around the year 1200.)

A bit different from the bees' "understanding the concept of zero".

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/is-beekeeping-wrong

[โ€“] lugal@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This might be hard for you to understand but there might even be zero of them left

Editlol, I love how controversial this comment is. The joke was that if there were "zero of them", it wouldn't be hard for to understand for anyone. If it's hard for them to understand, the number of "non recent" humans wouldn't be zero. It's a self contradiction, a paradox, what ever. First and foremost it was a joke.