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Who invented zero?

A dot became a number, and numbers became infinite. How India invented zero — the idea that made algebra, calculus, and computing possible.

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Every number you have ever used — your bank balance, your phone’s processor, the equations that landed rovers on Mars — runs on an Indian invention: nothing, given a symbol.

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