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• pebbles@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fun fact! If I recall correctly, calling them Arabic numerals is a eurocentric thing. The numbers were introduced to Greeks through Arabic folks but the ideas actually originated in India.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Kinda. The Arabians changed them a little bit. It’s more correct to say the system was developed by both people exchanging ideas, but the vast majority of it in India.

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    • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s why I learned them as Hindu-Arabic numerals growing up

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      yeah they changed the appearance of the number symbols a little bit, but i would say the real genius in the system is that it’s a place-value system and that each digit is valued 10 times more than the one after it. that’s the core of the system, the rest is just a make-up appearance.

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      • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yes, technically putting a “0” instead of letting the place empty is included in “changing the appearance a little bit”, but your comment pre-edit undersells the innovation.

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• BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wait hold on is the Jigsaw puppet taking the sensible position or the whackadoo position here? I’m assuming the latter but she’s absolutely smart enough to know how stupid this sounds.

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• Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lmao I remember when it got posted like a week ago, in the comments someone said it was only a matter of time before stupid people reposted it unironically. Welp… Here we are

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