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Why the number 0?
By Anthony S. Lopez
The History of 0
• It is said that the number
zero originated or was
created in this 3 places.
• Ancient India, Ancient
Babylon, and the Mayan
Civilization.
• Each of these zeros were
created at different times.
• But the one that people
think was used first was
in Ancient India by the
Hindus and the Arabics.
• People believe that the number 0
originated or came from the Arabic people.
• That’s not true, the Arabic people did had
the number 0 but they didn’t discovered it.
• Research shows that the Hindus were one
of the first people to actually use 0 as a
number.
• It also says that the Hindus started to use
the number 0 in the late 9th century.
• But people believe that they been using
the number 0 way before the birth of
Christ.
Zero in India
• The number 0 does not appear
until the late 9th century.
• The reason for this is because
other number systems like the
Greeks, Romans, and Chinese
didn’t needed it.
• For example you could write
1056 in the Roman number
system like this: MLVI.
• The word for zero in HinduIndia is “sunya” meaning void
or empty.
• This are the numbers that the
Hindus and the Arabics use.
Zero in Babylon
• There’s evidence that the
Babylonians had a 60 placevalue number system as early
as the 19th century BC.
• We still use their system foe
measuring minutes in an hour
and the degrees in a circle(6 x
60=360 degrees)
• They created 0 in the third
century B.C. even if the
Babylonians claim to be first
users of zero they didn’t
understand its modern sense.
• This is their numeral system.
Zero in the Mayans
• The symbol for 0 in
the Mayans looks like
a bowl or an eye.
• Their numeral system
was 20.
• They got the number
twenty by putting 0
below 1. This means
that zero is actually
20 and one is 1. So
it’s like 20 x 1=20