Also Read: Shahid Kapoor and Kriti Sanon's film delivers 3 eye-opening money lessons you can't afford to miss You know that ancient Egyptians, Indians, Chinese as well as the Greeks used the decimal system to calculate numbers. The Mayans used lines and dots, the Chinese depicted numbers with bamboo sticks placed horizontally and vertically in boxes leaving the box empty to say zero! No matter how you count, the number ‘1’ has given us a system of column by column calculations. The binary system uses ones and zeroes.
But the coolest method was used by the Mesopotanians. They counted to sixty, just as our watches. Thankfully when you have to invest today in international offerings, ensure that you are using a credible counting system.
The value of currencies fluctuate and you need to be on top of your game to win. They say that there are three types of people who understand numbers. Those who can count and those who don’t.
Only one manages to work hard to become number one. As you know Aryabhatta first invented the concept of ‘shunya’ or zero, but it was Brahmagupta who gave us the rules for using zero. The Bodleian Library at Oxford has an ancient parchment which is dated 300-400 BC which mentions the number zero as we know it! As a smart investor, you have heard of zero-sum games.
It assumes that when one party wins, the other loses equally. But you know that there are transaction costs, so if playing, you must aim for positive sum games.
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