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I thought our numbers were of Arabic origin?
by ricksplat 10y ago
I thought our numbers were of Arabic origin?
- kps 10y agoIndian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Hindu–Arabic_numeral_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Hindu–Arabic_nu... Europe most likely adopted them via al-Khwarizmi's On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals, naming them ‘Arabic’ after the perceived origin of the author (actually he was Persian) rather than ‘Hindu’ after the title.
- sageikosa 10y agoZero sort of emerged from accounting serialization difficulties with positional base number systems. When it actually began to be treated as a number, all hell broke loose.