why,when and where was zero create?

Question

why is zero invented
where was zero invented
when was zero invented
who invented the number zero

Answer 1

Zero (0) was created in India in about 5 BC by Pingala as part of Sanskrit vocabulary. There were references to zero by the Babylonian and Maya cultures but they did not use zero with other numbers as was started by Pingala.

Most believe Pingala as the first users of the concept of zero, but I gave you a link to sources for more information. Watch the BBC video documentary for a fun history of numbers.

Answer 2

For as long as mankind has counted, mankind has required a way to denote the absence of something. If I start selling chickens, and I use short lines to denote each chicken ( I I I I for example) when I sell one, I erase a line (I I I). Ok, if I sell all the chickens, how do I denote the nullity ( I I I I with a line through it equals five). The earliest record of zero was in Maya calendar glyphs where a shell symbol was used in 36 BC. In 130, Ptolemy was using a circle with a bar through it to represent a nullity, although the word means nothing, and was NOT associated with zero.

The modern day zero originated in India, who invented the decimal number system, the number line, negative numbers and modern algebra.

Answer 3

It was in India. It was called "Shynya" means nothing.

In 498 AD, Indian mathematician and astronomer Aryabhata stated that "Stanam stanam dasa gunam" or place to place in ten times in value, which may be the origin of the modern decimal based place value notation.

The rules governing the use of zero appeared for the first time in Brahmagupta's book Brahmasputha Siddhanta, written in 628. Here Brahmagupta considers not only zero, but negative numbers, and the algebraic rules for the elementary operations of arithmetic with such numbers. In some instances, his rules differ from the modern standard. Here

are the rules of Brahamagupta:[10]

Answer 4

The concept of zero was discovered, not invented. The ancient Indians did it somewhere on the order of 5 - 7 thousand years ago. not sure on the time thing.

Answer 5

zero was invented by Arabs Methodists about 1300 year ago because Arab used to say a thousand 's thousand about one million; this wasn't a problem before they had a great role all over the ancient world; thus they had to invente something like zero to ease and clarify their accounting statements