Ellipse og [[udeladelsesprikker]] er opfundet af inderne.
<ref>[http://www.csus.edu/indiv/v/vonmeierk/8-01ZE.html Chapter 8: Zeroes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929133002/http://www.csus.edu/indiv/v/vonmeierk/8-01ZE.html |date=29. september 2007 }} Citat: "...the symbol o--an abbreviation of the [[Græsk|Greek]] word ouden, "nothing"...The case of [[Nul|zero]] is special; in [[Sanskrit]], it was called shunya, "void, empty" (sometimes written sunya or shunya-bindu, "empty dot")...Our modern custom of indicating a missing word or line of verse by [[Udeladelsesprikker|a row of dots]] goes back to this Indian practice...This famous text inscribed on the wall of a small temple near [[Gwalior|Gvalior]] (near Lashkar in Central India) first gives the date (AD [[870]] in our reckoning) in words and in [[Brahmi-skrift|Brahmi]] numerals...Here, in the number 270, the zero first appears as a small circle..."</ref>
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