The Beauty and Intelligence of Arabic Numerals
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 two angles
the number 3 has three angles
…….
and the most intelligent of all – ZERO has no angles.
Called the Hindu-Arabic numerals, the numbers were first invented by the Indian mathematicians, subsequently, the numerals were adopted by the Persian mathematicians in India, and passed on to the Arabs further west. From there they were transmitted to Europe in the Middle Ages. The use of Arabic numerals spread around the world through European trade, books and colonialism. Today they are the most common symbolic representation of numbers in the world.
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very interesting. I asked around and am very surprised how many people do not know the origin or story behind the number system. We were told in elementary school how to write the numbers and nobody explained why, I wonder how many school teachers know the origin of arabic numerals???
This is cool
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I used to teach Math but I didn’t know about this. Will definitely link to this.
This is something new that I have learned it from you today. Thank you.
Hi Everyone,
This is just a joke. its not real. The original arabic numbers resenble nothing like what is presented here. Also, the Middle eastern civiization was much ahead of what ever that was happening in India at the time. Persian (muslims) travelled the world only after Islam gave the Arabs the basic start.