Called as Shoonya in Sanskrit, the Zero was invented by the 5th century Indian Mathematician Brahmgupta, and it occupies a prominent place in mathematics and science.
It is neither positive nor negative. For this simple reason, zero is a pivotal point on thermometers and is the origin point for all types of bathroom scales and the coordinate axis.
Zero is very important that each of the mathematical operations has special rules called properties governing its use with other whole numbers.
The addition property of zero states that whenever zero is added to a whole number or vice versa the sum will be the whole number. Example: David had 3 oranges and Sara had none. If they combined their apples, how many would there be in all?
Zero is a crucial number for its place-holding value. If you have a number like three hundred six, how do you write it so that you understand that there are no tens in the number? You cannot write it as 36 because that is a totally different number.
Whatever way you call zero like naught, or nil, zero has a significant place in the field of mathematics.
The division property of zero is amusing as any number that is dividing zero will give the result as zero while anything divided by zero is considered as an indeterminate quantity. It is very much useful in the calculation in algebra and arithmetic.
Another important aspect of Zero is, it helps us in rounding off the numbers.
Actually zero has no value in mathematics, but it adds lots of value to other numbers.
By
Srini
