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====Epigraphy====
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| footer = The oldest, firmly dated use of zero as a decimal figure, found on the Sambor Inscription. The number "605" is written in [[Khmer numerals]] (top), referring to the year it was made: [[Shaka era|605 Saka era]] (683 CE). The fragment, inscribed in [[Old Khmer]], was once part of a temple doorway, and was found in [[Kratié province]], [[Cambodia]].
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A black dot is used as a decimal placeholder in the [[Bakhshali manuscript]], portions of which date from AD 224–993.<ref name = "Devlin 2017" />

There are numerous copper plate inscriptions, with the same small {{sc|o}} in them, some of them possibly dated to the 6th century, but their date or authenticity may be open to doubt.{{sfn|Kaplan|2000}}

A stone tablet found in the ruins of a temple near Sambor on the [[Mekong]], [[Kratié Province]], [[Cambodia]], includes the inscription of "605" in [[Khmer numerals]] (a set of numeral glyphs for the [[Hindu–Arabic numeral system]]). The number is the year of the inscription in the [[Saka era]], corresponding to a date of AD 683.<ref name="Cambodia">{{multiref2|{{cite journal| author-link=George Cœdès|last=Cœdès |first=George |title=A propos de l'origine des chiffres arabes |journal= Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London |volume= 6 | number= 2|date= 1931|pages= 323–328 |jstor=607661 | publisher= Cambridge University Press | language=fr | doi= 10.1017/S0041977X00092806|s2cid=130482979 }}|{{cite journal|last= Diller|first= Anthony | title=New Zeros and Old Khmer|journal=[[Mon-Khmer Studies]]|volume= 25|date=1996|pages= 125–132 | url= http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf8/diller1996new.pdf }} }}</ref>

The first known use of special [[glyph]]s for the decimal digits that includes the indubitable appearance of a symbol for the digit zero, a small circle, appears on a stone inscription found at the [[Chaturbhuj Temple, Gwalior]], in India, dated AD 876.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Casselman |first=Bill |author-link=Bill Casselman (mathematician) |title=All for Nought |url=http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-india-zero |website=ams.org |publisher=University of British Columbia), American Mathematical Society |access-date=20 December 2015 |archive-date=6 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151206184352/http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-india-zero |url-status=live }}</ref>{{sfnp|Ifrah|2000|p=400}}