In this episode
The story of zero for kids: how Brahmagupta in India wrote down the first rules for zero as a number in 628 CE, and how it travelled to Europe.
• How the Babylonians and the Maya used a mark to hold an empty place open
• Brahmagupta's rules for adding, taking away and multiplying with zero
• How Arabic scholars and Fibonacci's 1202 book brought zero to Europe
• Quiz questions to answer along the way
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