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Where Was 0 Invented?

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    Some sources claim that the number zero was invented somewhere around the mid 2nd millennium BC. It seems to have been invented by Babylonians, who had a complicated sexagesimal positional numeral system. The space that lacked the positional value, which is considered to be zero, was shown by a space amid sexagesimal numerals.

    However, some records of the ancient time also claim that the ancient Greeks were very uncertain about the status of the number zero. On the other hand the Indian scholar named Pingala , had invented the number in the binary system but it was known as zero then, it was called a śūnya.
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