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It was previously believed that the mathematical number “zero” for the first time found on the wall of the Gwalior Temple, built in the Indian state Madhya Pradesh in the 9th century. And so the researchers at Oxford University significantly “aged” this symbol.
Scientists turned to the Bakshali manuscript, which is stored in the Bodleian library and which also has a math the zero character. Using the radiocarbon dating method, the researchers determined that the manuscript was created no later than the VI century, that is, he is five hundred years old, at least older than his age, which attributed to him earlier. And thus the symbol “zero” and in general turned out to be much older …
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New study of Bakshali manuscript approved the leadership and scientific advice of the Bodleian library, where this The ancient document has been kept since 1902. The manuscript was found in 1981 in the open field, which later grew the village of Bakshali (modern Pakistan) – hence the name. It is believed scientists, some kind of ancient Indian mathematical text traced on seventy fragile birch bark sheets-pages on which there is characters that mathematicians interpreted as “zero.”
Earlier, the Bakshali manuscript was considered a document created in VIII – XII centuries. And now he’s “aged” almost five hundred years, thereby proving that in the mathematics of ancient philosophers “zero” used much earlier than anticipated …
