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Who was the Indian mathematician and astronomer who used zero in the decimal system?
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Aryabhatta
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Brahmagupta
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Srinivasa Ramanujan
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Aryabhata was one of the greatest Indian mathematicians astronomer from the classical era of Indian mathematics and astronomy. He was the one to discover the value the number zero.
Detailed explanation-2: -It was al-Khowarizmi who first synthesized Indian arithmetic and showed how the zero could function in algebraic equations, and by the ninth century the zero had entered the Arabic numeral system in a form resembling the oval shape we use today.
Detailed explanation-3: -Therefore it is said that Aryabhatta found zero.
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