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Maths in the Early Islamic World

In Our Time

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What Did the Arab World Give Us?

The babylonians came up with a em first of all, t it was just a gap and account symbol. Round about 300 b c later, the mayons developed their own symbol. So a symbol for zero, babylonians. And the next one, round about the same time, the concept of zero. I think we we will attribute to aristotle. He he describes the concept of noting o describe it. It was just nothingness, a void, the vos the vacuum. But when we talk about zero as a number that sits half way between plus one and minus one, that is giving credit tothe indian mathematicians in the early sixth century.

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