Cinema Face said:
Yes, they came up with zero, zip, zilch, nada. Quite the legacy.
Seriously, I don't think we owe our great technology and the sumation of modern knowledge to the Arabs inventing Zero.
Seriously, . . .Yeah right !
We in the west may not owe our great inventions to Arabs but none of which would have been possible without the discovery and knowledge of pure science ... As they were discovered by other world civilization such as Arabs, Persians, Chinese, or Indians.
And just since you seem very ignorant of these well known facts, algebra, chemistry, astronomy, physics, medicine are all mainly Arabic words (the official language of the civilized world at the time)... all your numbers and alphabets are also Arabic base.. So start counting . . .
Else, you would have been counting & writing your numbers in Roman form I, II, III, IIII, V...
---The number system that we use today, or the decimal system of numeration is the Arabic numeral system, actually invented in Ancient Iraq & Egypt an later was written in Arabic
Egyptian & Babylonians (of ancient Mesopotamia) number system was based on using your ten fingers or counting in-group of ten
Same with counting in-group of 60 (sexigesimal number system) for economic purposes, where their principal units of weight and money were the mina, consisting of 60 shekels, and the talent, consisting of 60 mina. They also divided the year into 360 days (6 x 60), the time of one hour into 60 minutes and each minute into 60 seconds.
---As for Algebra, Kharazmi al Hakim from Persia, used the Arabic language to write a book called Algebra to introduce
(Mathematical equations) so later our Isaac Newton could discover the three laws of motion known as Newton's laws
Or
(Introduction of Algorithm) so Abbe Giovanna Caselli in 19th Century could invent his "pantelegraph" and becomes the first person to transmit a still image over wires
---Jabir ibn Haiyan is considered to be the father of alchemy (al-kimyia in Arabic) which was known as the science of converting metal to Gold and Silver, which led us to the discover the 100 elements . . . the rest to be discovered by some other civilization . .