Posted on 09/14/2017 1:28:41 PM PDT by Republic_Venom
Carbon dating shows an ancient Indian manuscript has the earliest recorded origin of the zero symbol. The Bakhshali manuscript is now believed to date from the 3rd or 4th Century, making it hundreds of years older than previously thought.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Carbon dating must be Islamophobic.
Means absolutely nothing to me.
Americans had to put up with a Big, Fat, ZERO for eight l-o-n-g years!
However, if FELT like hundreds of years longer...
*SNORT* :)
BC or AD?
I thought the Arabs invented zero.
I know that because Zero told us so.
So, another muzzie lie exposed.
Their zero amounted to.....
Nothing.
The clock on my wall is in Roman Numerals...alas...no zero.
So no Muzzies?
ML/NJ
The numerals we refer to today as ‘Arabic Numerals’ are actually Hindu.
The Arab merchants saw the system in use in India and started using it themselves. They then transferred that system to the European marketplace around the Mediterranean and the Europeans saw the system and started using it as well, thinking the Arabs had invented it................
The so-called Arabic numerals we use today are actually Hindu in origin...................
AD...................
While many ancient number systems did not employ the symbol “o”, many did employ letter/numeric symbols, grammar symbols & or place markers to designate what we would now designate as “0” in writing numbers.
While the report may represent the oldest written “zero” in a numbers sense, I am not sure it represents the oldest use of zero, the concept or its placeholder in number systems. The symbol “o” and the concept are separate.
That altogether has a whole separate history from the philosophical dialogues about “zero”, and symbols for it meaning as “nothing”.
So...these guys surely realize there was math before the 3rd or 4th century, right?
And while the zero may not have looked like “0”, it was still there.
pointless. 1 - 1 = nothing. which logically they would draw a straight line. Who cares how they represented zero.
“By 1770 BC, the Egyptians had a symbol for zero in accounting texts. The symbol nfr, meaning beautiful, was also used to indicate the base level in drawings of tombs and pyramids and distances were measured relative to the base line as being above or below this line.[12]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0
>I thought the Arabs invented zero.
Arabs invented absolutely nothing besides the slave army and later getting conquered by your own slave armies.
Mohammed was born April 22, 571 AD, the 6th century.
The Bakhshali manuscript is now believed to date from the 3rd or 4th Century. So the dot meaning zero existed before Islam. In Arabic today, the dot means zero.
The unanswered question is if the m*slims got the zero dot from the people who created this manuscript, or if they invented it separately.
Regardless, m*slims can no longer claim to be the inventors of zero.
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