2006-10-18 04:34:56 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
India, it also gave the number system which the iranians copied. "Decimal" is known as "Dishamblav" in sanskrit the oldest known language! Don't believe the iranians they'll say everything originated from islam when in actuality it represses everything!
Did you also know that sanskrit is the most compatible language with computers!
2006-10-18 04:44:28 · answer #1 · answered by Rajan S 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
George Leroy Decimal, Zurich 1632
2006-10-18 11:48:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
History
Decimal writers
* c. 3500 - 2500 BC Elamites of Iran possibly use early forms of decimal system. [2] [3]
* c. 2900 BC Egyptian hieroglyphs show counting in powers of 10 (1 million + 400,000 goats, etc.).
* c. 2600 BC Indus Valley Civilization, earliest known physical use of decimal fractions in ancient weight system: 1/20, 1/10, 1/5, 1/2. See Ancient Indus Valley weights and measures.
* c. 1400 BC Chinese writers show familiarity with the concept: for example, 547 is written 'Five hundred plus four decades plus seven of days' in some manuscripts.
* c. 1200 BC In ancient India, the Vedic text Yajur-Veda states the powers of 10, up to 1055.
* c. 400 BC Pingala – develops the binary number system for Sanskrit prosody, with a clear mapping to the base-10 decimal system.
* c. 100–200 The Satkhandagama written in India – earliest use of decimal logarithms.
* c. 476–550 Aryabhata – uses an alphabetic cipher system for numbers that used zero.
* c. 598–670 Brahmagupta – explains the Hindu-Arabic numerals (modern number system) which uses decimal integers, negative integers, and zero.
* c. 780–850 Muḥammad ibn MÅ«sÄ al-ḴwÄrizmÄ« – first to expound on algorism outside India.
* c. 920–980 Abu'l Hasan Ahmad ibn Ibrahim Al-Uqlidisi – earliest known direct mathematical treatment of decimal fractions.
* c. 1300–1500 The Kerala School in South India – decimal floating point numbers.
* 1548/49–1620 Simon Stevin – author of De Thiende ('the tenth').
* 1561–1613 Bartholemaeus Pitiscus– (possibly) decimal point notation.
* 1550–1617 John Napier– use of decimal logarithms as a computational tool
2006-10-18 12:01:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
There were pre flood tablets found which consisted of writing similar to the science and math of to day. It would be worth while checking this anceant library. I believe there was discussion of a digital system in those days.
2006-10-18 13:04:23 · answer #4 · answered by goring 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The great 18th century European mathematician Laplace best described the 'invention' of the decimal place value system
2006-10-18 11:53:53 · answer #5 · answered by Vishy s 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Jeez you and your questions are getting inane and rather boring. Try getting a degree in Math or something and enough already with what sound like rhetorical questions. Get a life!
2006-10-18 16:56:35 · answer #6 · answered by sommelier10n1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
c. 3500 - 2500 BC Elamites of Iran possibly used early forms of decimal system
2006-10-18 11:39:08 · answer #7 · answered by JRob 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wow Raju, that's a pretty stupid place to ask that question
I'd expect more from you
You answer is simple...DECIMAL DEC I MAL think about it!
DOES HE SMELL lol
2006-10-18 12:22:13 · answer #8 · answered by Tea_Girl 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Who gave pointless math questions to Yahoo?
Raju!
2006-10-18 11:36:31 · answer #9 · answered by dansweaza 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Same place the secret of the zero came from. Sumeria.
2006-10-18 11:36:46 · answer #10 · answered by Jay Z 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋