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 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.
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.