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NUMBER definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary At the same time, the Chinese were indicating negative numbers by drawing a diagonal stroke through the right-most non-zero digit of the corresponding positive number's numeral. The first use of negative numbers in a European work was by Nicolas Chuquet during the 15th century. He used them as exponents, but referred to them as "absurd numbers". Brahmagupta's Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta is the first book that mentions zero as a number, hence Brahmagupta is usually considered the first to formulate the concept of zero. And π, and complex numbers which extend the real numbers with a square root of −1 . Maya arithmetic used base 4 and base 5 written as base 20. George I. Sánchez in 1961 reported a base 4, base 5 "finger" abacus. In mathematics texts this word often refers to the number zero. In a similar vein, Pāṇini used the null operator in the Ashtadhyayi, an early example of an algebraic grammar for the S...