Carbon dating shows the Bakhshali manuscript's pages come from different centuries, turning its history upside down.
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A sharp, playful look at how zero became a world-changing idea.
The episode turns zero into a lively historical inquiry: what the circle meant, how it came to stand for nothing, and why that small symbol changed the way numbers work.
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Press play if you want the strange history behind zero, the little circle that reshaped place value.
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