Thursday 26 October 2017

The Bakhshali manuscript: The world's oldest zero?

(University of Alberta) Last month, the Bodleian Library at Oxford University announced that a Sanskrit manuscript housed in the library for the last century contains the oldest known written zero, although not a 'true' zero. An international group of historians of Indian mathematics has now challenged those findings.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science http://ift.tt/2gE3xTk

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