• shawn1122@sh.itjust.works
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      12 hours ago

      Just for knowledge purposes for others (good joke) -

      Hindu-Arabic numerals. Arabic numerals is the Eurocentric nomenclature.

      Both Fibonacci and Al-Khwarizmi cited mathematicians and philosophers from the subcontinent in their works but somehow this got lost in Western historiography until more recently.

      For those interested - Al Khwarizimi wrote Kitāb al-Hisāb al-Hind (The Book of Indian Calculation) around 825 CE. Fibonacci came across the method 400 years later while in North Africa and wrote Liber Abaci (Book of Calculation) in 1202 referring to the number system as the Modus Indorum (method of the Indians).

      How the original source got lost along the way is hard to say but some degree of colonial revisionist history likely had a role to play.

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      21 hours ago

      Not the Arabic numerals! How dare they teach those in school. Back in my day we just had to learn the 1 2 3’s.

      /s

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      22 hours ago

      Reality has a well known liberal bias.

      That’s why conservatives avoid it at all costs.