A black dot on a third-century Indian manuscript has been identified by Oxford University as the first recorded use of the mathematical symbol for zero, 500 years earlier than previously thought.

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Ancient Indians were using a symbol for zero centuries earlier than historians previously thought, new research in the United Kingdom has revealed. Carbon dating performed by researchers at Oxford ...

The earliest recorded example of the use of zero was previously believed to be a ninth-century inscription on a wall in a temple at Gwalior in India. LONDON: A black dot on a third-century Indian ...

A black dot on a third-century Indian manuscript has been identified by Oxford University as the first recorded use of the mathematical symbol for zero, 500 years earlier than previously thought.