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Re:Bronze Age mining sites received deliveries of pre-proces... by usrusr on Sunday March 28, 2021 @08:16AM (#26609691)
And to this day the English language calls those numerals the Arabic numerals. How much more acknowledgment could you expect? There's a lot to say about anglo-centrism, this is not part of it.
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Re:Bronze Age mining sites received deliveries of pre-proces... by boomboomsubban on Sunday March 28, 2021 @09:19AM (#26610115)
Though the (misguided)point is that during the "dark ages" things were great elsewhere, calling an Indian invention "Arabic numerals" because that's how they got introduced to Europe is rather Anglo-centric.
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Re:Bronze Age mining sites received deliveries of pre-proces... by azinman2 on Sunday March 28, 2021 @01:05PM (#26612002)
That might be, but they did get substantially changed in form in Arab countries, and what we call Arabic numbers is western Arab script.
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