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Indian philosophy embraced the concept of nothingness just as Indian math embraced the concept of zero. The conceptual leap that led to the invention of zero happened in a culture that accepted the void as the essence of the universe. The symbol that emerged to represent zero, the circle, encapsulated the message that mathematics cannot be separated from spirituality. Zero means nothing, and it means eternity.