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The invention of zero

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I guess it’s the different cultures that invented the number zero?

Except Babylon didn’t?
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  The Maya invented zero
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    Technically Babylon and Egypt first had what could be described as a concept of zero, while India invented the modern mathematical zero.
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      They first had a blank space, not mathematical zero

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