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Carbon dating reveals the earliest written record of the number "zero"

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Carbon dating reveals the earliest written record of the number "zero"

By Michael Irving
Sept. 15, 2017

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In this close-up image of folio 16v, you can see the use of a dot as a placeholder in the bottom line (right-to-left, 7th character).
This dot evolved into the use of zero as a number in its own right. The Bakhshali Manuscript (early 3rd century) from India.
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Read the article above. Zero apparently evolved from a placeholder character to a mathematical symbol.
 
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