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@CCAK0123456789 said in #4:

  1. Zero
  2. Decimal system
  3. Chess
  4. Ayurveda
  5. Yoga
  6. Surgery
  7. Plastic surgery
  8. Wootz steel
  9. Urban planning
  10. Drainage system
  11. Buttons
  12. Stepwells
  13. Trigonometry
  14. Algebra
  15. Astronomy
  16. Ink
  17. Wireless communication
  18. Crescograph
  19. Shampoo
  20. Indelible ink
  21. Jaipur Foot
  22. Rockets and space technology
  23. Water harvesting systems
  24. Iron pillar technology

Idk if i've missed anything.

Nice - India? They invented zero.

@CCAK0123456789 said in #4: > 1. Zero > 2. Decimal system > 3. Chess > 4. Ayurveda > 5. Yoga > 6. Surgery > 7. Plastic surgery > 8. Wootz steel > 9. Urban planning > 10. Drainage system > 11. Buttons > 12. Stepwells > 13. Trigonometry > 14. Algebra > 15. Astronomy > 16. Ink > 17. Wireless communication > 18. Crescograph > 19. Shampoo > 20. Indelible ink > 21. Jaipur Foot > 22. Rockets and space technology > 23. Water harvesting systems > 24. Iron pillar technology > > Idk if i've missed anything. Nice - India? They invented zero.

@ajfang said in #42:

Nice - India? They invented zero.

Hmm, no I'm pretty sure they invented a few things!

@ajfang said in #42: > Nice - India? They invented zero. Hmm, no I'm pretty sure they invented a few things!

But China had the number 0 a long time ago, before India. They used counting rods to represent numbers and used empty spaces to indicate a digit was 0. Placing the counting rods lower represented the decimal part, and tilting the counting rods indicated a negative number.

But China had the number 0 a long time ago, before India. They used counting rods to represent numbers and used empty spaces to indicate a digit was 0. Placing the counting rods lower represented the decimal part, and tilting the counting rods indicated a negative number.

The Standard American Diet, junk food, and the resulting chronic metabolic diseases that go with it. You're welcome...

The Standard American Diet, junk food, and the resulting chronic metabolic diseases that go with it. You're welcome...

Google tells me that a gentleman called Albert Niemann isolated cocaine for the first time in 1860 in Germany.
That's really something I don't want to get my nose into.

Google tells me that a gentleman called Albert Niemann isolated cocaine for the first time in 1860 in Germany. That's really something I don't want to get my nose into.

@fin34601473braunpaul said in #49:

Google tells me that a gentleman called Albert Niemann isolated cocaine for the first time in 1860 in Germany.

Hmm, I wonder if he's related to Hans!

That's really something I don't want to get my nose into.

Well, it's not the worst thing your country has given us!

@fin34601473braunpaul said in #49: > Google tells me that a gentleman called Albert Niemann isolated cocaine for the first time in 1860 in Germany. Hmm, I wonder if he's related to Hans! > That's really something I don't want to get my nose into. Well, it's not the worst thing your country has given us!

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