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What was need of inventing zero?

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15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Zero is required to put each number into its correct place-value position. For example, in 123, 1 is worth 1 x 100, 2 is worth 2 x 10, and 3 is worth 3 x 1 (multiplying each digit with the value of its position). One position may happen to be empty, as in 103 = 1 x hundred + 0 x ten + 3 x one. Just omitting the zero will give a DIFFERENT result - 13 is NOT the same as 103. The zero, then, is used as a placeholder, to "push" other digits more to the left, to their appropriate position.

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