The original post: /r/television by /u/Colin-Onion on 2025-01-05 16:40:35.
I just watched some episodes of Cunk on Earth, and I found out many of the questions she asked were actually good.
For example, she asked the question, “Did they (ancient civilizations) have the same number of numbers as we do?”
Actually, humans invented positive numbers before they invented zero. I remember that in Brazil’s Indigenous culture, they used only “small amount” and “large amount” without a number system.
This is a good question in mathematics history. However, the professor didn’t answer this question (because Cunk claimed 700 is the biggest number, and the professor just went after this one.). It is slightly disappointing to me how this plot was carried out: not on Cunk, but on the professor.