Author: leonid
Date: 19:10:29 12/17/99
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On December 17, 1999 at 16:59:19, Thorsten Czub wrote: >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 ? Exactly. In modern Hindi we still have perfectly Sanscrit numbers and script. Strange as it could sound, Sanscrit took his writing from the Middle East, from old culture that existed well before Arabic. Indian script even now give general impression that it is related in some way to Hibrew. The same vertical and horizontal line that is present in each letter. Leonid.
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