• Valmond@lemmy.world
    5·
    6 months ago

    Also, let’s use the letter O for it!

    (I would like to know who translated that back in the day though)

    • nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      21 days ago

      Not Aryabhatta. But he did contribute to its development by using a place-value system that implied the use of zero as a placeholder. The formal recognition of zero as a number is attributed to Brahmagupta, who established rules for its use in calculations around 628 CE.

      • Tangent5280@lemmy.world
        2·
        20 days ago

        Damn, so we’ve only had Zero used in theorems for around 1400 years? Damn. It’s so much more recent than I thought.