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Posted: 19 Jun 2022

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Finding Zero

Finding Zero

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 Dinesh
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. . . . Mathematicians in India first used zero in its contemporary sense -- a number, not a placeholder -- sometime in the first few centuries A.D. It didn’t appear in Europe until the twelfth century, when it came in with the Arabic numerals we use today (fearing fraud, some European governments banned the new numbers). Meanwhile, the first recorded zero in the Americas occurred in a Maya carving from 357 A.D., possibly before the Sanskrit. And there are monuments from before the birth of Christ that do not bear zeroes themselves but are inscribed with dates in a calendrical system based on the existence of zero. ~ Page 23

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 Dinesh
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By studying numerals found in ancient Cambodia and Indonesia, where his Indianized cultures thrived in the early centuries of the common era, Coeds was able to support his theory that these civilizations used such numerals before their appearance in the West in the late Middle Ages. Numerals were found on many inscriptions from the eighth and ninth centuries analyzed by Coedes, as were others found in India. But research in India proper also identified the key element of the numbers: the zero, discovered at Gwalior. Perhaps in the ruins of these Indianied civilizations, where so many stone inscriptions had been found, he might discover a zero predating that of Gwalior, Coedes thought. In the meantime he spent much of his time studying the amazing culture that sprang up in the western part of Cambodia a millennium ago: the legendary civilization of Angkor. ~ Page 90

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