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The first use of the number "0"

28 September 2017Symbols1 min read

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A new study by the University of Oxford has identified the world's oldest use of the number “0”. The number appears hundreds of times in an ancient Indian text known as the Bakhshali manuscript. The manuscript consists of 70 leaves of birch bark, filled with Sanskrit texts and mathematics. Previously it was […]

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