Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!mephisto!ncsuvx!mcnc!duke!macbeth!khera
From: khera@macbeth.cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Zero Length Arrays Allowed in C Standard?
Message-ID: <16377@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Date: 7 Dec 89 15:33:18 GMT
References: <480@codonics.COM> <2678@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> <11760@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Sender: news@duke.cs.duke.edu
Reply-To: khera@cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera)
Organization: Duke University CS Dept.; Durham, NC
Lines: 18

In article <11760@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>
>As I recall, zero was invented by Arabic mathematicians
>thousands of years ago.  It's a pity it still frightens
>or confuses people.

No, it was invented by Indians.  If you check your history, you will learn
that the first evidence of the existence of the zero was in Gwalior, India
(which by amazing coincidence is where I was born ;-). The Arabs "borrowed"
the Indian numbering system and eventually got credit for inventing it.

Enough said.

							vick.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Vick Khera                              Department of Computer Science
ARPA:   khera@cs.duke.edu               Duke University
UUCP:   ..!{mcnc,decvax}!duke!khera     Durham, NC 27706