2006-09-29 06:14:54 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
If the Arabs have not invented the Arabic Numerals than we would be using Roman Numerals...just imagine all those X, I and V's. That is enough to give someone a headache if used on a daily basis. Not to mention applying it to daily life i.e. recipes, gas prices, and balancing ones check book may take just a bit longer. Since it would be the only thing known it would be our primary form of numerical form we would not complain since we would have no knowledge of another form for writing numbers.
2006-09-29 06:34:53 · answer #1 · answered by o_O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boy are people stupid...
The Indians DID invent the Arabic numbers...
It was the Hindus that invented Arabic numbers back in 600AD.
In 750AD the number system ended up in Persia.
Muhammad b. Musa al-Khwârizmî wrote a textbook based on the Hindus number system in 875AD.
In 952AD Abu'l-Hasan-al-Uqlidisi wrote about the Hindus decimal fraction system.
It was around about this time that the information was transmitted to Europe and the numbers were reversed and the current modern day "Arabic Number System" came into being.
Anyways, we would be using Latin and Roman symbology to write numbers in the Western world if it were not for the Hindus.
2006-09-29 13:22:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
the British who were colonizing most of the world would have spread roman numerals and Americas would have invented a new system just so that they will be doing the opposite if the British :-)
By the way indians did invent the now called "arabic numbers"
2006-09-29 13:31:13 · answer #3 · answered by RaRa 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The indians did no invent arabic numbers, the ARABS did.
2006-09-29 13:17:34 · answer #4 · answered by WJVV 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Arabs didn't invent anything. Read history of the ottoman empire. They kept slaves that did all their thinking for them. Some from every country they controlled.
2006-09-29 13:26:17 · answer #5 · answered by jekin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I hate to break it to you, but Indians did not invent Arabic numbers, ARABS did, hence the name ARABIC.
2006-09-29 13:16:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Answer man is right, he has all the facts.
Ask the arabs what they call their numbers, they will tell you hindi or al-hindi or something of that nature.Even they know where it comes from.
The world would still be the same,except that we would be using some other form to represent numbers.
2006-09-29 13:34:05 · answer #7 · answered by mangu 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, do you know that the english numbers were orginally arabic numbers?
2006-09-29 13:20:29 · answer #8 · answered by Will Smith 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋