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And to this day the English language calls those numerals the Arabic numerals. How much more acknowledgment could you expect? There's a lot to say about anglo-c
by usrusr 6y ago
And to this day the English language calls those numerals the Arabic numerals. How much more acknowledgment could you expect? There's a lot to say about anglo-centrism, this is not part of it.
- boomboomsubban 6y agoThough the (misguided)point is that during the "dark ages" things were great elsewhere, calling an Indian invention "Arabic numerals" because that's how they got introduced to Europe is rather Anglo-centric.
- azinman2 6y agoThat might be, but they did get substantially changed in form in Arab countries, and what we call Arabic numbers is western Arab script.