• Sylvartas@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    IIRC Hindus didn’t have a “proper” 0, and Arabs did, which I guess is the reason why they got the credit

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      11 months ago

      Zero was (in its modern form) invented in India. It’s pretty fundamental to the concept of Hindu-Arabic numerals too: it’s how we represent numbers such as 10, 100, and so on.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah after some quick googling it looks like I’m wrong. I’m quite sure that’s what I was taught in school though, so blame my teacher !

        Basically I was taught that Hindus invented the 0 for base-10 numerals, but didn’t actually use it for maths (e.g 0*x = 0), whereas Arab mathematicians did.