To: DoughtyOne
The last thing of note they did was invent zero, about a thousand years ago or so. Nothing since then, however.
9 posted on
05/25/2009 9:28:51 PM PDT by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: coloradan
And they were so proud, they’ve been stuck on zero ever since. LOL
So is the left in the U.S. for that matter.
11 posted on
05/25/2009 9:33:36 PM PDT by
DoughtyOne
(Obama is mentally a child of ten. Just remember that when he makes statements and issues policy.)
To: coloradan
The last thing of note they did was invent zero, about a thousand years ago or so. Nothing since then, however.
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The Litter Box?
Probably not even that.
13 posted on
05/25/2009 9:36:57 PM PDT by
unkus
To: coloradan
The last thing of note they did was invent zero, about a thousand years ago or so. Nothing since then, however.They didn't even event that. They borrowed if from the Hindus.
19 posted on
05/25/2009 9:47:42 PM PDT by
stripes1776
("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
To: coloradan; DoughtyOne
The last thing of note they did was invent zero, about a thousand years ago or soNot even that.
The Zero was invented by the Indians and carried to the Middle East by traders, from where it went to Europe.
To: coloradan; DoughtyOne
The last thing of note they did was invent zeroEven that's in dispute.
You state, "its mathematicians created the algebra and algorithms that would enable the building of computers, and the creation of encryption." The fundamental basis of modern mathematics had been laid down not hundreds but thousands of years before by Assyrians and Babylonians, who already knew of the concept of zero, of the Pythagorean Theorem, and of many, many other developments expropriated by Arabs/Muslims (see History of Babylonian Mathematics, Neugebauer).
What Arab Civilization?
To: coloradan; DoughtyOne
The last thing of note they did was invent zero, about a thousand years ago or so. Nothing since then, however
the Moos did NOT invent the zero -- the zero was invented by Aryabhatta about 500 AD in north-eastern india. Ditto for "arabic" numerals -- those are actually devanagri numerals from india. Ditto for all those astronomical discoveries -- that came from Iran, still under influence of the Zoroastrians and from Christian Iraq and Syria
39 posted on
05/26/2009 4:02:29 AM PDT by
Cronos
(Ceterum censeo, Mecca et Medina delenda est)
To: coloradan
"The last thing of note they did was invent zero, about a thousand years ago or so. Nothing since then, however." Correct.
And we Americans recently trumped theirs with our own version.
63 posted on
05/26/2009 6:20:48 AM PDT by
Landru
(Arghh, Liberals are trapped in my colon like spackle or paste.)
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