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Article #8162Re: The Myth of the Muslim origin for the modern decimal counting system.
From: Dan Drake
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:16
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:16
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:25:36 UTC, Arthur Brain <arthur_brain1@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > MYTH #2: "Muslims gave us our modern counting system" > Has anybody been so sound asleep for the last 40 years as not to know that the numbers we use are now called Hindu-Arabic? If so, it's a good idea to enlighten them, but why get all heated about it? BTW, have you got a good source for that path Babylon -> Alexander -> India for the use of zero? The history in Indian sources has been pretty muddy and controversial; if new stuff has shown up to clarify it, one would be interested. And isn't it odd that the Greeks didn't have the moxie to pick up on the idea themselves, whicle they were hauling it to India? Seems to prove that those Hindus and Muslims had *something* on the ball. -- Dan Drake dd@dandrake.com http://www.dandrake.com/ porlockjr.blogspot.com
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