Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 13:59:19 12/17/99
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On December 17, 1999 at 09:41:24, leonid wrote: >Arabic numbers originally signify just what was said: Number represent the >number of angles that it contain. Only one precision for curious. Each Arabic >number is in reality Indian number. Arabs took them from India. Numbers in >Arabic script are almost identical to the numbers in Hindi. If we name our >numbers Arabic it is only because we took them from Arabs. > >Leonid. so lets see if i get this straight. today we memorize the arabic numbers digital, meanwhile we memorize the roman numbers analog. therefore different brain halves memorize them. you say arabs took them from india. so they are sanskrit ?
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