Monday, February 28, 2011

Invention of numbers

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“The nine numerals of the Indians are these 987654321. With them and this sign ‘0’ any desired number can be written.’ – Fibonacci

Muslims adapted the Indian version of numerals into the modern number 1 to 9 that we use today. The application of ‘zero’ was the work of the Muslim mathematicians, al-Khwarizmi and al-Kindi, in 825. Arabic numerals initially came to Europe in the late 10th century throught Pope Sylvester-I who studied in Qurtaba, Spain and then returned to Rome.


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All information and facts are extracted from the following media. 
1001inventions.com
bbc.co.uk/history/ancient
muslimheritage.com

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