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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I am speechless. My guy. Aryabhatta.

[โ€“] Sylvartas 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 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.