The numbers we use were invented in India, refined by Arab scholars, then imported into Europe centuries later. We still call them “Arabic” because that’s who Europe learned them from.
Meuiiiiii on
Looks like two numbers have always existed from the start… 6 and 7…
Dear-Refrigerator135 on
1234567890
nondual_gabagool on
Indian mathematics developed the concept of zero, as hard as that is to imagine to us nowadays. They actually imported the idea from linguistics. Roman and ancient Chinese numerals had no zero.
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What is the line in the middle of each block?
The numbers we use were invented in India, refined by Arab scholars, then imported into Europe centuries later. We still call them “Arabic” because that’s who Europe learned them from.
Looks like two numbers have always existed from the start… 6 and 7…
1234567890
Indian mathematics developed the concept of zero, as hard as that is to imagine to us nowadays. They actually imported the idea from linguistics. Roman and ancient Chinese numerals had no zero.
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HoSH_43AkLg/Te9sliG2WaI/AAAAAAAAAjI/FcDL-GnCn1I/s400/arabic-numbers.jpg
I’m telling everyone my handwriting is just western arabic
15th century counting: “one, two, three and a four, five, six….”
go on, show the next step when it becomes a european numeral system. or do we just stop naming conventions when it’s convenient?