Why does the west use Arabic Numerals? Documentary
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Date: 2022-07-19
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Pyrrhus
Indians are mad for calling them Arabic numerals they dont understand that the Arabs created a more developed numerical system which lead to them taking all the credit for it, the same thing with mathematics Arabs translated Greeks, Indian, Persian works and adds to them and made algebra and so on, this is how science works technology is a human heritage each civilization adds to it
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Indians are mad for calling them Arabic numerals they dont understand that the Arabs created a more developed numerical system which lead to them taking all the credit for it, the same thing with mathematics Arabs translated Greeks, Indian, Persian works and adds to them and made algebra and so on, this is how science works technology is a human heritage each civilization adds to it
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Devam
They are not arabic numerals, They are Hindu numerals, as you said they originated in India and were transfered to west through the works of Persian mathematician Al khwaizimi who explicitly mentioned that these were Indian Hindu numerals. I don't know why people hate Indians so much. They almost never give Indians credit for their discoveries and always steal their discoveries.
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They are not arabic numerals, They are Hindu numerals, as you said they originated in India and were transfered to west through the works of Persian mathematician Al khwaizimi who explicitly mentioned that these were Indian Hindu numerals. I don't know why people hate Indians so much. They almost never give Indians credit for their discoveries and always steal their discoveries.
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Peasant
Fun fact, the only numbers you can have in the denominator of a fraction where the resulting decimal doesnt repeat infinitely are any multiples of the prime factors of your number systems base. So for base 10, the only fractions that wont infinitely repeat as decimals are 1/(2x5y, since the prime factors of 10 are 2 and 5
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Fun fact, the only numbers you can have in the denominator of a fraction where the resulting decimal doesnt repeat infinitely are any multiples of the prime factors of your number systems base. So for base 10, the only fractions that wont infinitely repeat as decimals are 1/(2x5y, since the prime factors of 10 are 2 and 5
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James
Leaving only Monarchs, the occasional calendar, and the US Army's Corps numbering system to use them Seriously, I Corps isn't Eye Corps but first corps (III Corps is third corps, and you better spell out the full XVIII Airborne Corps and not just say 18th lol)
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Leaving only Monarchs, the occasional calendar, and the US Army's Corps numbering system to use them Seriously, I Corps isn't Eye Corps but first corps (III Corps is third corps, and you better spell out the full XVIII Airborne Corps and not just say 18th lol)
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Ken
This is how Arabic speakers write their numbers from 1 to 10.
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This proves our numbers are NOT Arabic numerals but the numbers taken by them from India and introduced to Europe.
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This is how Arabic speakers write their numbers from 1 to 10.
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This proves our numbers are NOT Arabic numerals but the numbers taken by them from India and introduced to Europe.
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Benjmin
In my home town, the main square has a commemorative plaque on the ground, citing the year MIM.
Wanted to look smart, turned out to be silly. On one hand 1999 is correctly written as MCMXCIX, and on the other mim in Hungarian roughly means My what?
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In my home town, the main square has a commemorative plaque on the ground, citing the year MIM.
Wanted to look smart, turned out to be silly. On one hand 1999 is correctly written as MCMXCIX, and on the other mim in Hungarian roughly means My what?
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Scott
HINDU-Arabic Numerals, thank you. You DID mention that they really originated in India, but without Roman numerals, there would be no copyright dates on movies and TV shows and Led Zeppelin would've had to come up with titles for albums II, III, and IV.
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HINDU-Arabic Numerals, thank you. You DID mention that they really originated in India, but without Roman numerals, there would be no copyright dates on movies and TV shows and Led Zeppelin would've had to come up with titles for albums II, III, and IV.
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boobio1
actually, people didnt do maths with roman numerals, if you needed to add something, you needed the help of someone who knew how to use an abacus properly. thats why fibonacci wrote liber abaci (the book of the abacus, in which he was against them.
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actually, people didnt do maths with roman numerals, if you needed to add something, you needed the help of someone who knew how to use an abacus properly. thats why fibonacci wrote liber abaci (the book of the abacus, in which he was against them.
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Kristine
just to be clear cuz it doesn't show most states. Greece does use Arabic numerals, you only learn about the latin ones in high school and that's only in Latin, which was removed as a mandatory language (this also is if your course is literature)
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just to be clear cuz it doesn't show most states. Greece does use Arabic numerals, you only learn about the latin ones in high school and that's only in Latin, which was removed as a mandatory language (this also is if your course is literature)
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Dave
Long story short
Ottoman made Europe use Arabic numbers which made them look nice to Sultans and secondly imagine you are trying to calculate how much money Gates, Bezos and Musk made by colonizing the world: )
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Long story short
Ottoman made Europe use Arabic numbers which made them look nice to Sultans and secondly imagine you are trying to calculate how much money Gates, Bezos and Musk made by colonizing the world: )
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Ravi
Hindu-Arabic numeral system being used in English and other languages across the world is so fascinating. The world truly is a small place, each place surprisingly intertwined with many others.
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Hindu-Arabic numeral system being used in English and other languages across the world is so fascinating. The world truly is a small place, each place surprisingly intertwined with many others.
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education
zero, numbers, decimal place value system, positive and negative numbers, algebra, geometric analysis of equations, trigonometric formulae, infinite series, differntial equations etc, etc.
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zero, numbers, decimal place value system, positive and negative numbers, algebra, geometric analysis of equations, trigonometric formulae, infinite series, differntial equations etc, etc.
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Dead
Just try using Roman numerals for long division.
Algebra, too, was Indian, but it wasn't put on a firm theoretical foundation until Emmy Noether in the 20th Century.
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Just try using Roman numerals for long division.
Algebra, too, was Indian, but it wasn't put on a firm theoretical foundation until Emmy Noether in the 20th Century.
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Dieter
Its the same with the metric system. Its easier to understand and more practical.
Actually Im wondering why the US doesnt use roman numbers.
Would fit. XD
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Its the same with the metric system. Its easier to understand and more practical.
Actually Im wondering why the US doesnt use roman numbers.
Would fit. XD
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education
Absolutely false these are not arabic these were taken from india and passed to west it's hindu numeral system get your fact checked don't teach wrong history
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Absolutely false these are not arabic these were taken from india and passed to west it's hindu numeral system get your fact checked don't teach wrong history
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Aquarius1011
Before I watch this video, let me guess - They were easier to use than the longer and more cumbersome Roman numerals. And, they included a naught.
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Before I watch this video, let me guess - They were easier to use than the longer and more cumbersome Roman numerals. And, they included a naught.
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flower
Total lies, Brahamagupta gave the Quadratic solution, when the so called prophet Muhammad was courting a 6 year old. HINDU NUMERALS
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Total lies, Brahamagupta gave the Quadratic solution, when the so called prophet Muhammad was courting a 6 year old. HINDU NUMERALS
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shokkwave
Well They used to Called them Hindu-arabic Numerals. Now just remove Hindu When Indians used decimal system since 900 BCE.
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Well They used to Called them Hindu-arabic Numerals. Now just remove Hindu When Indians used decimal system since 900 BCE.
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Anonymous09
Why u would getting yelled at lol, Arent they actually arabic and the ones that r used by arabs now r the Indian ones
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Why u would getting yelled at lol, Arent they actually arabic and the ones that r used by arabs now r the Indian ones
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history_matters
So you're saying that Arabic numerals weren't widespread in Europe until after Columbus rediscovered America? TF?
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So you're saying that Arabic numerals weren't widespread in Europe until after Columbus rediscovered America? TF?
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