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> Of course, they also distrusted Arabic numerals. Really? Did they ever see them? They had abaci.
by thaumasiotes 1y ago
> Of course, they also distrusted Arabic numerals.
Really? Did they ever see them? They had abaci.
- BirAdam 1y agoYeah. So, in the West, Rome proper didn’t allow Hebrew numbers. However, in Constantinople, all accounting had to be done in Greek or Latin and Arabic numerals were forbidden. One can cite all kinds of reasons: tax assessors not wanting to learn it, distrust of foreigners, the fact that the Rhomaioi were almost always at war with the Arabs and/or Turks.