Thursday, April 26, 2012

Zero

          Numbers are the only universal language,used by and understood by all cultures and countries on Earth. Hindu mathematicians in India around A.D.500 created the numerals 1 through 9.Zero was the last cog in the system to exist,invented more than 300 years after the rest of the Arabic number system was in use.Zero was invented by Muhammad ibn Al-Khwarizmi(in Baghdad,Iraq).

Fun fact: How many Zeroes are there in a centrillion(the biggest recognized number) Anser:303.A google has 100 zeroes,a trillion has twelve, a billion has nine.



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