It’s a zero sum game and we need one million Croke Parks to play it

THERE is some ambiguity as to who invented the concept of “zero” – probably one of the most important and vital numbers used in maths and commerce since around the first century AD.

The Babylonians, Greeks, Chinese and Italians all used variations of the concept, but it was the Hindu-Arabic mathematicians who developed and refined it to the format we use today.

The invention of the zero at the time was a major breakthrough, probably akin to the invention of the wheel.