Ancient India

Zero first marked empty places in written numbers, in Babylon and elsewhere. It became a number with its own arithmetic rules in India, where Brahmagupta set them out in 628 AD.

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The Vedas are the oldest Hindu scriptures, composed in ancient India. The Upanishads are the final layer of each Veda, and they turn from ritual toward philosophical questions about the self and reality.

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