

What the Babylonians had instead was a space (and later a disambiguating placeholder symbol) to mark the nonexistence of a digit in a certain place value. The French versions also mentions a decimal and a mixed decimal/sexagesimal system. In the absense of Unicode support, the French version has some nifty images (such as ) for the numbers.

There were a zero but after in the beginning the babylonians begun with no zero, 101 was written as 11. ) in Babylonian numerals, or.? Guaka 13:39, (UTC) Shouldn't there be a 0? One needs a 0 to write 60 (or 3600, 3601. Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.107.191.2 ( talk) 22:55, (UTC) Reply possibly from their ruins?) - Abu Hanthala Al Zero.
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Is there any reference that proves when the the representation of "zero" (a blank) was replaced by two diagonal nails? Plus real examples from that period of time (e.g. This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. Ancient Near East Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Near East Template:WikiProject Ancient Near East Ancient Near East articles If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. This article is within the scope of WikiProject Ancient Near East, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Ancient Near East related articles on Wikipedia. Numbers Wikipedia:WikiProject Numbers Template:WikiProject Numbers Numbers articles This article is within the scope of WikiProject Numbers, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Numbers on Wikipedia. This article has not yet received a rating on the project's priority scale.

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