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An observation: Europeans owe quite a bit to interaction with the Indians though patriots might not want to admit it. The Indian numeric system (often called
by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
An observation:
Europeans owe quite a bit to interaction with the Indians though patriots might not want to admit it.
The Indian numeric system (often called Arabic in Europe) and the consept of zero (invented in India) enabled both the science revolution and the establishment of modern banks and corporations first in Italy and then in the rest of Europe.
- jhvkjhk 4y agoI'm interested in the inventing of zero, so I searched it: > The first evidence we have of zero is from the Sumerian culture in Mesopotamia, some 5,000 years ago. > The symbol changed over time as positional notation (for which zero was crucial), made its way to the Babylonian empire and from there to India, via the Greeks. > Arab merchants brought the zero they found in India to the West. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-origin-of-zer/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-origi... So the real inventor is Sumerian. Greek spread that to India, and later Arabs take that back to Europe from India. Although Indian isn't it's inventor, they did their job spreading it.