Detail of the Bakhshali manuscript, with a dot used in the bottom line, a placeholder that is recognized as the earliest zero symbol (courtesy Bodleian Libraries/ University of Oxford) Radiocarbon ...

The number zero is something we all take for granted, yet its conceptual origin has eluded archaeologists and historians. An updated analysis of an ancient Indian manuscript is shedding new light on ...

An ancient Indian manuscript full of mathematical calculations has been found to be the earliest recorded use of the number “zero.” Bodleian Libraries Researchers are challenging a claim that an ...

Reading from right to left the small dot zero is the seventh character at the bottom right of the manuscript Carbon dating shows an ancient Indian manuscript has the earliest recorded origin of the ...

Scientists have discovered evidence of the zero symbol in the Indian Bakhshali manuscript, a mathematical text which was discovered in 1881. Carbon dating indicates tha the manuscript dates from as ...

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 ...

LONDON: The Bakshali manuscript, which revealed the first use of symbol zero is now believed to date from the 3rd or 4th century, making it 500 year older than previously thought, UK media reported.