Who invented the Chinese Numerals?
I’ve just lifted this straight from a Google page Its only the last paragraph that is directly relevant to your question but the first sections are interesting too. However you are not going to be able to get the precise date nor the specific person by the look of it. I don’t think they were much bothered about claiming ownership of ideas 3,400 years ago. It was usually the anonymous traders who needed to do calculations who initiated counting systems which then became increasingly sophisticated until they developed into the system of enumeration that is around today. For example, we’ve inheritied a number system from thousand of years ago but the decimalised (1-10) system came later, then the symbol for Zero . And it was only after Zero was invented that sophisticated forms of accountancy were able to take off.. This is the lift from Google: Development of Mathematics in Ancient China “Chinese mathematics,” was defined by Chinese in ancient times as the “art of calculation” (suan chu)
