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[–] 115 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Math and statistics are clearly conspiring with him to hide the truth. Why else would they use Arabic numerals?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Just for knowledge purposes for others (good joke) -

    Hindu-Arabic numerals. Arabic numerals is the Eurocentric nomenclature.

    Both Fibonacci and Al-Khwarizmi cited mathematicians and philosophers from the subcontinent in their works but somehow this got lost in Western historiography until more recently.

    For those interested - Al Khwarizimi wrote Kitāb al-Hisāb al-Hind (The Book of Indian Calculation) around 825 CE. Fibonacci came across the method 400 years later while in North Africa and wrote Liber Abaci (Book of Calculation) in 1202 referring to the number system as the Modus Indorum (method of the Indians).

    How the original source got lost along the way is hard to say but some degree of colonial revisionist history likely had a role to play.

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