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👆A Map of Ancient India showing the area of Peshawar where Bakhshali manuscript was found in 1881. ✅ Bakhshali manuscript was found in a village called Bakhshali, near Peshawar, now a region of Pakistan. ✅It was found by a local farmer and was acquired by the Indologist AFR Hoernle, who presented it to the Bodleian Library in 1902, where it has been kept since then. ✅ It consists of 70 pages of birch bark, a common writing material before the advent of paper. ✅Translations indicate that it may have been used by Silk Road merchants practicing arithmetic.  ✅A large part of the manuscript had been destroyed and only about 70 leaves of birch bark, of which a few were mere scraps, survived to the time of its discovery

✅The surprising results of the first-ever radiocarbon dating conducted on the Bakhshali manuscript, a seminal mathematical text which contains hundreds of zeroes

👆Number '50'

👆Character '270' in the middle

👆The world's oldest carved zero! ✅On a wall of Chaturbhuj temple (9th CE , temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu ) in Gwalior Fort , Madhya Pradesh , is a plaque, dates back to c. 875 CE , which has a circle, considered as the earliest representation of the number zero in the world. ✅ The plaque mentions a land grant of 270 hastas (a unit of measure used for land ) for a flower garden as well as a daily grant of 50 flower garlands.

👆Gwalior Fort ----- The Fort with a Mathematics Milestone! represents the second oldest record of "zero" in the world

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👆Good information by AIR on Digital currency... ✳️GS-3// Indian Economy//

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Q.1691) With reference to President Rule (Article 356), which of the following are exercised by the President? 1. Executive powers of the State 2. Legislative powers of the State 3. Powers exercised by the High Court

✅Detailed note on 👉👉CBDC

DigitalRupee [e₹]: Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)! @RBI launches first pilot of Digital Rupee - Wholesale: e₹-W 👉Phased implementation strategy 👉Use case: Settlement of secondary market transactions in government securities 👉No disruption to the financial system

👆Monthly #CabinetRoundup,Oct.,2022✅