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The first modern equivalent of numeral zero comes from a Hindu astronomer and mathematician Brahmagupta in 628. His symbol to depict the numeral was a dot underneath a number.
India is believed to be the third civilization to independently discover zero. Its discovery is dated at around 500 AD. Although some scholars dispute this and say the knowledge was borrowed from Babylonia. The discovery of the number of “the void” was then picked up by the Cambodians, Chinese and the Arabs.