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To: Scrambler Bob

I thought it was the Muslims?

No, seriously. Don’t we use their numerals?


9 posted on 08/09/2022 1:22:44 AM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: Tacrolimus1mg

We call the numbering system the Indians invented “Arabic” numbers because they were conveyed to Europe through the Middle East.


10 posted on 08/09/2022 4:13:46 AM PDT by null and void (they promise the jetsons but deliver the flintstones)
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To: Tacrolimus1mg

No, seriously. Don’t we use their numerals?
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Yes.

But 2+2=5 because 2+2=4 is white European supremacy in today’s math classes.

I guess the Europeans enslaved the Arabic numerals then. That makes it even worse.


16 posted on 08/09/2022 6:39:47 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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