The oldest known text to use a decimal 0 is an Indian document: Lokavibhâga, dated 458 AD.
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The first mathematician is Arya bhatt.
decimal system and zero are the contribution of the Indians to the humanity.
Because they needed something to represent nothing, so came up with 0.
THe Gupta Empire
The decimal system refers to counting in tens and powers of tens and this system was used when Australia was colonised by Britain in 1788. Decimal coinage was introduced much later - in 1966.