Have you wondered what is the origin of Arabic algorithms or numbers?
How is it that Arabic numbers are written
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0?
What is the story and the logic behind?
The Answer is ANGLES.
Watch this little animated clip and you will see that
the number 1 has one angle
the number 2 has [...]
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I have heard of the famous Longjing Tea Plantation of Hangzhou, but was not so keen to pay a visit, as I wondered what would be so exciting about some tea bushes. Reluctantly I agreed to go along for a visit to the tea plantation and museum of Hangzhou and boy! did I get [...]
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Another “must visit” place in Shanghai is the Huxingting Tea House, the word Huxingting meaning “pavilion on the center of the lake”. This is the place which hosted foreign dignitaries including Queen Elizabeth II and President Bill Clinton. When I read the menu at the tea house, I couldn’t believe that the [...]
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Zhou Zhuang is a 900 year old water village in China located only 30 km away from Suzhou and 1-1/2 hour by bus from Shanghai. Marco Polo also visited this place in his travels and called it the “Venice of the East”.
During my visit, I bought some snacks which I took to the office today [...]
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Having arrived in Shanghai, I was told that I MUST visit the world’s best xiaolongbao restaurant in Shanghai. Most likely true, since Xiaolongbao was invented in Shanghai.
So, the best xiaolongbao restaurant in Shanghai is located in the Medieval Yu Yuan Garden, right smack in the middle of big city Shanghai – and it’s called [...]
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