ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.world · 4 days agoRobert F Kennedy Jr. says Arabs don’t produce science or literaturewww.aljazeera.comexternal-linkmessage-square226linkfedilinkarrow-up1500arrow-down111cross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
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minus-squaresome_guylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 days agoThe folks who invented the zero in mathematics over here (not me, the folks in Mesopotamia).
minus-square🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 days agoYou sayin’ they did zero? Nothin’, eh? Wow, what losers! ;-)
minus-squareleftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoThey invented a lot of things (like algebra, for instance), but zero they took from India; they just wrote it clearer, and then European accountants saw how they wrote numbers (including zero) and adopted the idea.
The folks who invented the zero in mathematics over here (not me, the folks in Mesopotamia).
You sayin’ they did zero? Nothin’, eh? Wow, what losers!
;-)
They invented a lot of things (like algebra, for instance), but zero they took from India; they just wrote it clearer, and then European accountants saw how they wrote numbers (including zero) and adopted the idea.