kersploosh to [email protected]English • edit-212 days agoArabic numerals, you say?sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageArabic numerals, you say?sh.itjust.workskersploosh to [email protected]English • edit-212 days agomessage-square23fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•11 days agoAlright, but aside from algebra, algorithm and alcohol, what have the Muslims ever done for us?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•11 days agoIIRC, that one comes from the name of a Persian mathematician named al-Khwarismi (sp?), from whose writings medieval mathematicians got the idea
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•11 days agoAl-khwarismi is the same guy who wrote al-jabr.
Similar etymology for algorithm too.
And alcohol.
Alright, but aside from algebra, algorithm and alcohol, what have the Muslims ever done for us?
Spread the use of coffee
Oh, coffee. SHUT UP!
And Al Jolson
IIRC, that one comes from the name of a Persian mathematician named al-Khwarismi (sp?), from whose writings medieval mathematicians got the idea
Al-khwarismi is the same guy who wrote al-jabr.