Brahmasphutasiddhanta
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- | [[Image:Black Square by Malevich.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Black Square]]'' (1915) by [[Kazimir Malevich]]]] | + | #REDIRECT [[Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta]] {{R from title without diacritics}} |
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- | The [[cardinal number]] occurring before [[one]] and that [[denote]]s no [[quantity]] or amount at all, represented in [[Arabic numeral]]s as [[0]]. | + | |
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- | The rules governing the use of zero appeared for the first time in [[Brahmagupta]]'s ''[[Brahmasphutasiddhanta|Brahmasputha Siddhanta]]'' (7th century). This work considers not only zero, but also negative numbers and the algebraic rules for the elementary operations of arithmetic with such numbers. In some instances, his rules differ from the modern standard, specifically the definition of the value of zero [[Division by zero|divided by zero]] as zero. | + | |
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- | ==Etymology== | + | |
- | From French ''zéro'', from Italian ''zero'', from Medieval Latin ''[[zephirum]]'', from Arabic ''صفر'' (ṣifr, “[[nothing]], [[cipher]]”). | + | |
- | == Namesakes == | + | |
- | *''[[Writing Degree Zero]]'', 1953, a book of literary criticism by Roland Barthes | + | |
- | *''[[The Love of Zero]]'', a 1927 film by [[Robert Florey]] | + | |
- | *''[[Zéro de conduite]]'', a 1933 film by French film director Jean Vigo | + | |
- | == See also == | + | |
- | *[[0 (year)]] | + | |
- | *[[0 (number)]] | + | |
- | *[[Empty]] | + | |
- | *[[Nihil]] | + | |
- | *[[Nothing]] | + | |
- | *[[Void]] | + | |
- | *[[Lack]] | + | |
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