INTERESTING FACT

Invention Of Zero

Zero was invented in India by Indian mathematicians dating as early as 5th century. They widely used it in calculations, astronomy and astrology. Zero was spread by Arabians to the Europe and there on it was spread all over. Before this, all Europeans used roman numerical which were difficult to calculate on as they were in the form of Symbols, lengthy and had limits.

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FACT COMMENTS

at 16:23h on Sat, 02 August 2008, sumaya

wrote:

that is soooo cool

at 12:37h on Mon, 04 August 2008, sof

wrote:

This information is false, zero was invented by the mayans. You can search for it in a mexican history book.

at 20:06h on Mon, 04 August 2008, Tomo

wrote:

The nr. zero was invented independently in India and
by the Maya. In India a decimal system was used, like
ours, but they used an empty space for zero up to 3rd
Century BC. This was confusing for an empty space was
also used to separate numbers, and so they invented
the dot for a zero. The first evidence for the use of
the symbol that we now know as zero stems from the 7th
century AD. The Maya invented the number zero for
their calendars in the 3rd century AD.
The number zero reached European civilisation through
the Arabs after 800 AD. The Greek and Roman did not
need the number zero for they did their calculations
on an abacus. The name 'zero' comes from the arabic
'sifr'.
(Data from the book "the calender" by D. E. Duncan).

Dr. Wassenaar

at 23:23h on Mon, 11 August 2008, Christina

wrote:

the mayans did invent zero. where the hell did this come from??

at 04:18h on Sat, 23 August 2008, marife almonte

wrote:

why is zero divided by zero is a mathematical error?

at 22:53h on Mon, 20 October 2008, nessa

wrote:

datz wicked!!