Editing Babylonian cuneiform numerals (section)

===Zero===
The Babylonians did not technically have a digit for, nor a concept of, the number [[0 (number)|zero]]. Although they understood the idea of [[nothingness]], it was not seen as a number—merely the lack of a number. Later Babylonian texts used a placeholder ([[File:Babylonian digit 0.svg]]) to represent zero, but only in the medial positions, and not on the right-hand side of the number, as is done in numbers like {{val|100}}.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Boyer |first=Carl B. |date=1944 |title=Zero: The Symbol, the Concept, the Number |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3030083 |journal=National Mathematics Magazine |volume=18 |issue=8 |pages=323–330 |doi=10.2307/3030083 |issn=1539-5588|url-access=subscription }}</ref>