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Arabs were, as we mentioned above, guided and trained by Al
Khwarizmi. Indian mathematician and astronomer, Aryabhatta, around
9th century C.E is considered to be the founder of Zero. There is no
doubt from Al Khwarizmi work and other Arabs scholars that this area
was quite rich in knowledge. Inf act “Sindh” which is a province of
Pakistan, was considered “Bab-Ul-Islam” and people from Arab use to
come to this region to gain knowledge. Pakistan and India were one
country before 1947. Also some historians believed that the word
“Shunya” (Which is an Indian word for zero) was translated in Arabic
as “Sifr” meaning nothing. The Arabic word “Sifr” was later translated
to “Zephyr” in Latin and then it was evolved to the recent word
“Zero”.
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