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To: ZaDomSpremni
. It was the Arabs who invented modern medicine, the numbers on your keyboard, and higher mathematics

I don't know about medicine, but the numerals sere invented by the Hindus, then adopted by the Arabs, and finally introduced into the west by Leonardo of Pisa, aka Fibonacci, around 1200.

134 posted on 09/19/2001 3:31:08 PM PDT by Virginia-American
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To: Virginia-American
Right. And while the arabs disseminated Greek and Hindu discoveries in mathematics, they discvered very little on their own.
153 posted on 09/19/2001 4:27:24 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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