Hindu numbers

[Charles Butler]

Yes, the Hindus created Zero, not the Arabs.  The Arabs corresponded with Indian sages for centuries and brought those documents to Northern Europe in time for the Renaissance to adopt them.  Newton was reading Hindu documents when he invented/discovered calculus symbolism.  ASL has its own style, I've often wondered what ASL uses for scientific notation, as I've never seen a systematic "ASL for Math" book.

Charles





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From: Adam Frost <icemandeaf at gmail.com>
To: SignWriting List <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
Sent: Sunday, February 8, 2009 7:25:28 PM
Subject: Re: [sw-l] Nominal vs Cardinal numbers in ASL

I just did a search on Wikipedia for Chinese numerals. It said that they used to use the characters for the numbers, but now are mostly using the Arabic numerals.  I also found in the Arabic numeral article that the Arabs use what they call "Hindu numerals" which were the numbers that you saw on the Arabic translation that you referred to a few emails ago.

Adam

On Feb 8, 2009, at 3:09 PM, SignWriting wrote:

> How do Chinese documents number their pages? In Chinese? Or do they use Arabic numbers now in their own style?




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