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The invention of zero (thelemmy.club)
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[-] SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Technically Babylon and Egypt first had what could be described as a concept of zero, while India invented the modern mathematical zero.

[-] ellen.kimble@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago

They first had a blank space, not mathematical zero

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