Zero: Something for Nothing

Series: Exploring Mathematics Series

Duration: 8

Year Published: 1971

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Copyright: Registered 21Oct71 · LP43750 (Jul-Dec 1974) Copyright holder: Xerox Corporation Production company: Davidson Films

Description: Illustrates through an animated story of magic that zero is a number that has definite properties in mathematical operations. Utilizes a courthouse setting in which a mathematician's apprentice is tried for his unauthorized summoning of the "spirit of nothing." Shows the accused demonstrating with magic spells and portraying with dots the role of zero in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

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