Well there was the famous Boston Tea Party, and Economic Boycotts.
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.
<span>"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" </span>is a novel written by Mark Twain
In chapter 22 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.: "Then at the bottom was the biggest line of all, which said:
LADIES AND CHILDREN NOT ADMITTED.
"There," says he, "if that line don't fetch them, I don't know Arkansaw!"
Twain is most likely using humor to convey his viewpoint that people are often tempted by the thrill of something naughty.
