who invented zero?

Answer 1

The first records we have of the symbol we use for 0, is from Hindu writings from the late 9th century.

However the Babylonians were known to have used a space as a placeholder for empty "columns" as far back as 1700 BC.
Around 1400 years later, they developed the first known symbol to stand for an empty place. It looked something like YY.

It didn't actually stand for the number we know as "zero." It was never used alone. It was only a place holder.
The Mayan culture developed a symbol for the number zero, probably independently of the Babylonians, sometime later.

Answer 2

"To the Babylonians the zero sign did not signify "the number zero." Although it was used with the meaning of "empty" (that is, "an empty place in a written number"), it does not seem to have been given the meaning of "nothing," as in "10 minus 10," for example; those two concepts were still regarded distinct."

"The Mayan zero symbol was used to indicate the absence of any units of the various orders of the modified base-twenty system. This system was probably used much more for recording calendar times than for computational purposes."

Answer 3

The Romans didn't recognise zero, so it can't have been the Egyptians- if if was them, Rome would have used it in their calculations... hmm, anyway, I heard it was Arab Mathematicians who introduced it to Europe... all the modern numerals are based around 'zero', the circle in one way or another, my mate described it to you, but it's late, and I'd struggle to show you how without a pencil and paper ;) Use your imagination... zero is the start, one is the bar that cuts the circle in two, two is made by adding a quarter of the circumference to that bar, and three is the same bar with one more quarter of the circumference, and it goes on, and I'm off to bed....

NIGHT!

Answer 4

Charlton Athletic

Answer 5

The Japanese did, they invented the Mitzubishi Zero, the best Japanese fighter plane of the Second World War.

"What will one bomb do to Hiroshima! Silly Americans!"

Answer 6

I believe it originated from India. It was because of the zero that we stopped using Roman numerals, simply because it is so much easier.

Answer 7

Before the time of Christ, early Babylonians and Hindus from India began using a symbol that eventually evolved into our numeral 0.

Answer 8

No one. It's always been there. The correct term would be who DISCOVERED zero and the answer is some cavemen who had gibberish to say "we have zero food!"

Answer 9

Nat West Bank coz that's what they say I have in my bank account after I paid in £1500

Answer 10

the ancient peoples even before the babylonians and the egyptions concocting the structures of numbers, I think I have them on speeddial