28 INDIAN INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD.
1. THE HINDU NUMBER SYSTEM.
With decimal place-value and a symbol for zero, this system was the ancestor of the widely used Arabic numeral system. It was developed in the Indian subcontinent between the 1st and 6th centuries.
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