The symbol zero originated from the Indian sub-continent and was also used by the ancient Mayans but in a different form.
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The first real zero came from an Indian mathematician named Aryabhatta .
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The first person who came up with the concept of zero, probably a Babylonian, but the word may have arrived from Sanskrit. Many cultures did not have a "0", as exemplified by the Romans, as there is no Roman numeral 0.
Zero is a placeholder. The Ancient Chinese used it, the ancient Egyptians used it, ancient India and the Arabs used it. The word came into English from Italian zero.