>>117713360 deserves no hate, its a great tool and line of reasoning, and opens up lines of reasoning like limits approaching 0. But to your question on its mysticism. Its the same reason why the olmec's possessed a more precise measure of the solar year than what Western civilization was to achieve until the 1800's. Maps from antiquity possess accurate longitude, which again, we didn't have until the 1700's. We clook at the geometry of various works of ancient art, the pyramids, mega structures. Engineered and ordaned at a level of precision not reproducable again until the industrial revolution, all why communication the geometry of the earth.
Its easy, in light of archaeology, to treat the description of numbers of the ancients very seriously, obviously they knew of 0, its properties, its potential, but in the works they imbued to communicate with us through the aeons, it is neglected.
My hypothesis portends that the knowledge the ancients would pass on wouldn't be some arbitrary number system or vector field like the minkowski space or the anti-desitter space, or even the field of irrational numbers. The ancients desired to communicate with us a specific vector field, mathematical field of space, that of nature.
