Cambodia invented Zero - 683 AD

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The original zero

Zero is the incredible invention that made our number system so efficient. This system was popularized in Europe after the publication, in 1202, of the book Liber Abaci.
But who invented the zero, which gives so much power to our number system?
We don't know who invented it, but we are pretty sure that the zero is an Eastern invention.

4,000 years ago, Babylon understood...
But the Babylonians didn't use a place-holding zero, so there were serious ambiguities in their system.

In the 1930s a zero from the year AD 683 was found in Cambodia, and its great antiquity allowed a French researcher by the name of Georges Coedes to prove that the zero is of Eastern provenance.

But this zero disappeared during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, and no one knew if it still existed. I spent five years researching its whereabouts and developed various hypotheses about where it might be found.
Then last year I was awarded a generous research grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation...

He found it
How I Rediscovered the Oldest Zero in History
https://www.discovermagazine.com/techno ... in-history

KOWow - just keeps on givin'
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Cambodia-Gave You Zero.

(Not the best ad campaign.)
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How about this one then, D?

".... to place this inscription---one of the most important finds in the history of science---in the Cambodian National Museum in Phnom Penh, where it rightly belongs.
So anyone interested in the history of science and the birth of numbers should soon be able to see the first zero ever discovered."
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very significant contribution
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Cambodia....................thanks for nothing
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mehfisto wrote:very significant contribution
Very very important contribution.

Looking at the article. It states that the Khmer had it by AD 690. But there’s no clear connection that it was passed along to Arab traders. Because of the Crusades, it was passed along to the Europeans. With the publication in AD 1202 in Nantes, it become widely part of Western knowledge.
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One thing's for sure, the dumb Romans didn't invent it. What have the Romans ever done for us?
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The aqueduct
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DaveG wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 8:22 amThe aqueduct
I’m sure there’s more than one.
Don’t listen to Chinese whispers.
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