2. India gave the world the numeral, Zero: - Deepstash
2. India gave the world the numeral, Zero:

2. India gave the world the numeral, Zero:

Although Babylonians used zero to signify the 'absent', Indians were the first to use zero as a symbol and in arithmetic operations.

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