Zero Length Arrays Allowed in C Standard?

Vick Khera khera at macbeth.cs.duke.edu
Fri Dec 8 02:33:18 AEST 1989


In article <11760 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at 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.
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