what is the origin of zero?

Answer 1

Zero doesn't even exist.

Answer 2

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. So did the Hindu culture.


The first records we have of the symbol we use for 0, is from Hindu writings from the late 9th century.
There was no internet back then, but information still got around. Mostly by camelback, or foot, so it took awhile for 0 to migrate to Arab lands, (probably due to commerce).

Eventually, about 400 years after South Asia and Asia Minor had been using 0 and inventing and discovering math concepts the we in the west couldn't even consider (because we were busy being "religiously enlightened" and culturally superior) 0 finally got to the civilized world.


In its superior intellect, civilized Europe continued to use the Roman numeral system, refusing to change for as long as possible, as the infidels ran circles around it.
Eventually the Europeans gave in.
That's the scoop in a nutshell,

Answer 3

An American Mathematician developed the concept of Zero, or 0 around 375 B.C. He was working with higher levels of math at the time and determined that some representation for the concept of nothingness was needed to complete certain equations. And, as he stared at his empty jar of beer his eyes landed upon the shape of the mouth of the jar which was an empty circle. When a friend asked how much beer he had left, he replied, "Zero." And, that is how it all began a long, long, long time ago. The usage of Zero became widespread after the Americans landed in North America and settled that continent calling it the Americas. When asked how many Turkeys were left to BarBQue for Thanks giving, an American Frontiersman replied, "Zero." And, so the idea stuck.

Answer 4

Zero is a limit,a point of nonexistence.
If time or distance are divided physically,a point will be reached where the next division will result in nonexistence.
In a mathematical sense the sequence could go on to infinity,but in a quantum universe the limit would end in zero.

Answer 5

the origin of zero is in india

Answer 6

In terms of mathematics origin of zero is India. Decimal number system was invented in India...

Answer 7

It comes from, I believe, either the Persians or Arabs. They were the first to use the concept of nothing or zero.

The Roman system started with 1.

Answer 8

An Arab mathematician (Al Khwarizmi, the founder of Algebra) first discovered 0 and introduced it to mathematics, that's the origin of the word cipher, from the Arabic word zero

Answer 9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0_%28number%29
zero it is the origin itself

Answer 10

nothingness