[Deo volente]

I think the Muslims gave us the number “Zero”.

Other than that, they’ve contributed nothing but an awful lot of misery, mayhem, and mass murder.

[rageaholic]

think the Muslims gave us the number “Zero”.

Nope they stole it from the ancient Greeks and Hindus. Throughout history Islam has been a retrograde force, it merely loots the corpses of civilizations it destroys.

[ApplegateRanch]

First, they stole zero from the Hindus; they didn't invent it. It would, like a better mouse trap, have eventually made its way West.

Second, I refuse to believe that, just because they didn't have a separate symbol for it, that Greeks and Romans never got around to asking, "If I have 5 olives and give Alexander 3, and give Titus two, how many do I have left?"

What is significant is decimal notation, and different fish entirely.

[AZLiberty]

Zero came before Arabs fell under the Mohammedan spell. Since the 7th Century, Muslims haven’t progressed beyond the 7th Century.