Have you tried doing mathematics using Roman Numerals? Each number is represented using a symbol like I for one, II for two, V for five, L for 50 etc. But if we don’t devise a scientific method to do simple arithmetic, then we will end up with a million different symbols for million different numbers. L, C, D, M , then X bar, L bar, C bar etc. This is the case with Roman numeral system. No useful mathematics could be done by this. Nor would have any better science been possible if one were to follow this system.
What Indians did was to invent Place Value system (Positional Notation) where we take a limited set of symbols 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. Then use a combination of these symbols to represent bigger numerical values like 32767, 2718 etc. This was done by giving a value for each position in incremental of 10. Aryabhata clearly mentions in his book Aryabhatiyam(1), sthaanam sthaanam dasha gunam meaning “from place to place increase 10 times”.
For ex in 11, 1 in the unit’s place has a value of one, 1 in the ten’s place has a value of 10, and hence the value of 11 is ten+one=eleven. This was a ingenious method and not only any number could be represented using just 9 symbols, one could even do complicated math using these numbers, starting with multiplication, division and proceeding even further to everything we have achieved in modern mathematics.
Try doing multiplication in roman numeral system and you will understand the genius of the India Place Values. Place value system was an amazing invention. As Albert Einstein once said
We should be thankful to Indians who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery would have been possible
The invention of place value system (Positional Notation) created a new problem. There were places with no values at all, and there was no way to represent them via numeric symbols. For example, to represent hundred and one, the rightmost 1 has a value of one, the left most 1 has a value of 100. But the middle place has no value, its a null or empty. It had to be written something like 1 1 (meaning 1space1) where the space in between represented a positional notation which had no value.
To overcome this difficulty, Indians invented 0, just to represent an empty place. It was not a number in itself, but just a notation implying “no value here”.
In Sanskrit, Shunya means nothing or emptiness, and zero was given the name Shunya. The Arab merchants who came to India for trade called it Sifr or Safira which means “empty” in Arabic. These Arab merchants took the Indian arithmetic to Europe when they went to trade the Indian goods there. Sifr in Arabic became Zero in the European languages. Since this numeral system came to Europe from India (Hindus) through Arab merchants, the Europeans called it Hindu-Arabic Numerals.
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