Generally, distinguish with the number ‘zero’ as we come to recognize the creation of this number through discrete civilization from the Mayan and Indian. The number zero was individually invented only three times before gaining its value. First in Babylonians in the year 3rd BC, then in the Mayan 3rd AD and finally came about in Indians 4th AD. A number in mathematics that was seen in the shadow with no attention had vanished from time to time. Manages to come back and gains identification in its essential meaning way even if others fail to come across the significant of the number zero and its meaning at the beginning. The number zero has two great use which both seem to be very important but can be slightly different. One of the use of zero is as an empty place holder indicator in the place-value system. For example, the number 5703 the zero is use so that the place of the 5 and 7 are correct. Rather then 573 meaning a totally different number and having a different value. The other use of zero is as itself in …show more content…
The number zero is very important as to what it consist of as holding a place value for the tenths. One think that remains in the question is how the world manages to establish the Indian way of conducting the number zero whereas the Mayans way of using the number zero went out of existent and is not used any more based on the 20’s. Just like the number zero is used in so many bar codes today within the school. Also in depicting information and a lot of inscription within the computer. The number zero was defined by these different culture that we use in todays math but back then writing the number zero and steps to solving problem were much much longer. Throughout time the development of zero led to solving the negative and square root of number, and also the imaginary numbers by simply setting the graph to have a certain