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You very cleverly picked the facts according to your narrative. And distorted them to subtly establish your false narrative that India is not the originator of Zero. So let me tell you the remaining unlooked facts that you "forgot" and show you the full history of zero.
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Egyptian 'nfr' was more like a reference point. They had a concept for the ”base” or ”ground-level,” for their architectural plans. For ex. ”1 cubit above nfr”. And all the nos. would b made by combining multiples of the symbols, so they hd no use for 0 even as a placeholder
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The Incas had the decimal system but so did the Harappan people in 3500 B.C.E.
Also, the Incas neither had the Idea of zero as an integer nor did they have a symbol for its representation.
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Coming to the Babylonians, their placeholder was not a true zero bcoz it was not used alone, nor was it used at the end of a number. Thus nos. like 2 & 120 (2×60) looked same bcoz the larger nos. lacked a final sexagesimal placeholder. Only context could differentiate them.
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And for Greeks, they had no symbol for zero (μηδέν) and did not use a digit placeholder for it. They seemed unsure about the status of zero as a number. They asked themselves, "How can nothing be something?"
You very cleverly picked the facts according to your narrative. And distorted them to subtly establish your false narrative that India is not the originator of Zero. So let me tell you the remaining unlooked facts that you "forgot" and show you the full history of zero.
[THREAD: ZERO]
— Amit Schandillia (@Schandillia) December 2, 2020
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Once upon a time in the land of Mesopotamia, there lived a people who engaged in commerce, had a system of weights and measures, paid in currency, and most importantly, kept written records of all of this in clay tablets. These were the Sumerians.
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Egyptian 'nfr' was more like a reference point. They had a concept for the ”base” or ”ground-level,” for their architectural plans. For ex. ”1 cubit above nfr”. And all the nos. would b made by combining multiples of the symbols, so they hd no use for 0 even as a placeholder
3/13
The Incas had the decimal system but so did the Harappan people in 3500 B.C.E.
Also, the Incas neither had the Idea of zero as an integer nor did they have a symbol for its representation.
4/13
Coming to the Babylonians, their placeholder was not a true zero bcoz it was not used alone, nor was it used at the end of a number. Thus nos. like 2 & 120 (2×60) looked same bcoz the larger nos. lacked a final sexagesimal placeholder. Only context could differentiate them.
5/13
And for Greeks, they had no symbol for zero (μηδέν) and did not use a digit placeholder for it. They seemed unsure about the status of zero as a number. They asked themselves, "How can nothing be something?"