Question

what was cames after 9 when zero not available

Answer 1

Answer:

The number zero is the subtle gift of the Hindus

of antiquity to mankind. The concept itself was

one of the most significant inventions in the

ascent of Man for the growth of culture and

civilization. To it must be credited the enormous

usefulness of its counterpart, the place value

system of expressing all numbers with just ten

symbols. And to these two concepts we owe all the

arithmetic and mathematics based upon them, the

great ease which it has lent to all computations for

two millenia and the binary system which now lies

at the foundation of communicating with

computers. Already in the first three centuries

A.D.. the Hindu ancients were using a decimal

positional system, that is, a system in which

numerals in different positions represent

different numbers and in which one of the ten

symbols used was a fully functional zero. They

called it 'Sunya'. The word and its meaning ‘void’

were obviously borrowed from its use in

philosophical literature. Though the Babylonians

used a special symbol for zero as early as the 3 rd

century B.C. , they used it only as a place holder;

they did not have the concept of zero as an actual

value. It appears the Maya civilisation of South

America had a zero in the first century A.D. . but

they did not use it in a fixed base system. The Greeks were hampered by their use of letters for the numbers. Before zero was invented, the art of reckoning remained an exclusive and highly skilled profession. It was difficult to distinguish, say, 27, 207, 270, 2007, because the latter three were all written 2 7, with a ‘space’ in between.

The positional system is not possible in the Roman numeral system which had no expression or symbol for zero. A number, say, 101,000, would have to be written only by 101 consecutive M’s. The Egyptians had no zero and never reached the idea of expressing all numbers with ten digits. The mathematical climate among the Hindus, however, was congenial for the invention of zero and for its use as the null-value in all facets of calculation

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