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Who gave number zero and when?

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14y ago
Updated: 10/17/2024

Muhammed ibn Ahmed al-Khwarizmi, an Arabic scholar in 976, gave the first written account of the concept of zero as a placeholder for powers of 10. It was called sifr meaning "empty." We used a derivation of this word in our word, "zero."

Most societies developed a concept for zero before conceptualizing negative numbers.

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