Chapter 8: Zeroes Citat: “… the symbol o – an abbreviation of the Greek word ouden, ‘nothing’ … The case of zero is special; in Sanskrit, it was called shunya, ‘void, empty’ (sometimes written sunya or shunya-bindu, ‘empty dot’) … Our modern custom of indicating a missing word or line of verse by a row of dots goes back to this Indian practice...This famous text inscribed on the wall of a small temple near Gvalior [[[Gwalior]]?] (near Lashkar in Central India) first gives the date (AD 870 in our reckoning) in words and in Brahmi numerals … Here, in the number 270, the zero first appears as a small circle …”
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