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In article <F10sPe5w165w@mp.sbay.org> jane@mp.sbay.org (Mingjane Wu) writes:
    >Umm, can we say the Moors? We can thank them for our current
    >characters for numbers, not to mention introducing some basic
    >medical techniques that pulled Western Europe from the Middle
    >Ages to the Renaissance. If you can't see such contributions,
    >you need to look harder.

So now it's the Moors is it? My how times and places have changed!

Silly old me - I guess that the story of Al-Jabar (from which we get
algebra), living on the coast of modern day Lebanon is all false.
How he developed a better numbering system after translating
Greek texts on geometry and arithmetic etc.

In any case, that's a LOOONG way from Spain.

But Al-Jabar DID make a better numbering system - albeit only AFTER he
had been heavily influenced by DWEM stuff. But, we can list that as one
from the Bong-lands.

As for Moor medicine, WHAT in the hell are you talking about?



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