Contributions of India's Rich Scientific Heritage
Contributions
- Idea of Zero: Mathematician Aryabhatta was the first person to create a symbol for zero and it was through his efforts that mathematical operations like addition and subtraction started using the digit, zero.
- The Decimal System: India gave the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols – the decimal system. Due to the simplicity of the decimal notation, which facilitated calculations, it made the uses of arithmetic in practical inventions much faster and easier.
- Numeral Notations: Indians, as early as 500 BCE, had devised a system of different symbols for every number from one to nine. ....
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