Re: Number origins

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:28:13 GMT, "Frank F. Matthews"
<frankfmatthews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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>Mxsmanic wrote:
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>> jcoulter writes:
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>>>Which is why it was the Muslims that gave the western world Algebra.
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>> The Arabs, you mean. They also gave us the digits themselves.
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>Actually the digits we use in our number system probably did not come
>through the arabs like the system itself. Their origin is cloudy but
>they are likely predominantly of roman origin.

What I've read attriputes the numbers to the Hindus, and they
were passed on to us by the Arabs.

>The Arabs meanwhile simply transferred the number system. It was built
>in India on Babylonian roots.

Eh? Above you say, "Their origin is cloudy but they are likely
predominantly of roman origin."

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