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There are other factual problems with this article. Most jarring is that it repeats this old incorrect information: > Inside the Chaturbhuj Temple in India (le

There are other factual problems with this article. Most jarring is that it repeats this old incorrect information: > Inside the Chaturbhuj Temple in India (left), a wall inscription features the oldest known instance of the digit zero, dated to 876 CE (right). It is part of the number 270. This is the real oldest known zero: > Because we know that the Çaka dynasty began in AD 78, we can date the artifact exactly: to the year AD 683. This makes the “0” in “605” the oldest zero ever found of our base-10, “Hindu-Arabic” number system. > But the Cambodian stone inscription bears the first known zero within the system that evolved into the numbers we use today. Maybe the Khmers came up with it or maybe they got the idea from India. Either way, we should set the facts straight. https://time.com/3845786/my-quest-to-find-the-first-zero/ https://time.com/3845786/my-quest-to-find-the-first-zero/

westurner 2y ago
0 (number) > Classical antiquity; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0#Classical_antiquity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0#Classical_antiquity : > By AD 150, Ptolemy, influenced by Hipparchus and the Babylonians, was using a symbol for zero ( — ° ) [25][26] in his work on mathematical astronomy called the Syntaxis Mathematica, also known as the Almagest. [27] This Hellenistic zero was perhaps the earliest documented use of a numeral representing zero in the Old World. [28]