kersploosh@sh.itjust.works to CunkPosting@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agoArabic numerals, you say?sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square24linkfedilinkarrow-up1375arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1369arrow-down1imageArabic numerals, you say?sh.itjust.workskersploosh@sh.itjust.works to CunkPosting@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square24linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAllNewTypeFace@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·2 months agoIIRC, that one comes from the name of a Persian mathematician named al-Khwarismi (sp?), from whose writings medieval mathematicians got the idea
minus-squaremyslsl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months 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.