• Question: is 0 considered having value

    Asked by rood534yags86 on 13 Mar 2026. This question was also asked by cove534sego66, cowy534yags86, tavs534sego66.
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      Brian Tyrrell-Nic Dhonncha answered on 13 Mar 2026:

      Yes it does! It itself has an important role in mathematics; you can think of the number line as being incomplete (has a hole) if 0 isn’t included. We also attribute importance to 0 in more ways than one; for example, there’s a big difference between 0.1 and 0.01.
      That being said, humans didn’t always consider 0 as a number with a value. I think Brahmagupta (Indian mathematician, 7th century) was the first to do this.

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