The first people to use the decimal system and the number zero WERE NOT THE CHINESE! I am learning about this in school. The ancient Hindu's invented them during the Gupta Empire.
arya bhatta
You write it as 0.004 because to the left of the decimal point is ones, to the first zero to the right of the decimal point is tenths, to the second zero to the right of the decimal point is hundredths, and so on.
The tenths place in a decimal fraction is the first digit after the decimal point - in this case, a zero.
a repeating decimal
The first mathematician is Arya bhatt.
THe Gupta Empire
The first people to use the decimal system and the number zero WERE NOT THE CHINESE! I am learning about this in school. The ancient Hindu's invented them during the Gupta Empire.
decimal system and zero are the contribution of the Indians to the humanity.
arya bhatta
Bhāskara was a 7th century Indian mathematician, who was apparently the first to write numbers in the Hindu-Arabic decimal system with a circle for the zero, and who gave a unique and remarkable rational approximation of the sine function in his commentary on Aryabhata's work.
The first real zero came from an Indian mathematician named Aryabhatta .
aryabhatta,the ancient Indian scientist and mathematician was the first inventor ofzero
The zero enables the use of place values which are fundamental to the decimal system. It allows you to differentiate between 109 and 19: the 1 in the first number represents the number of hundreds whereas in the second number the same digit represents the number of tens.
It was the 7th century Indian mathematician Brahmagupta who first treated zero as a number in its own right and not merely as a placeholder.
The decimal system was introduced by the Indian mathematician Aryabhata in the 5th century. He developed it as a way to represent numbers using the base 10 system, which is now commonly used worldwide.
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