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I'm so used to the Arabic-Hindu system (0,1,2,3,4,5) that looking at the other's (except maybe Roman) seems so alien and needlessly cluttered.
But when I think about it, the numbers don't even look Arabic, does anyone feel this way?
Is it because they're so widely used that they've lost their "alien" trait's to me ?
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>>3101090
They're so normalized we don't think of them as foreign. I'm guessing the fact we write them left-to-right also helps de-Semitize them in our minds.
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>>3101090
Let's just call it European numerals
>Arabic Numerals
٠ - ١ - ٢ - ٣ -٤ - ٥ - ٦ - ٧ - ٨ - ٩
>Hindu Numerals
०.१.२.३.४.५.६.७.८.९
>Medieval European Numerals
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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>>3101102
No, because those are Eastern Arabic
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>>3101102
Its ama ing here you see The Beatles precise classical effect uve European mind, that script reflex ts european mind at it's best and incredible beauty in it's simple city and rigor while avoiding ti ne be exaggerated like The stupid indian mind or Arabic one
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>>3101124
what the fuck?
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>>3101124
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>>3101124
Wut?
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>>3101124
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>>3101124
>Its ama ing here you see The Beatles precise classical effect uve European mind
It's amazing that here you see the classical effect of the European mind, similar to the Beatles in particular?
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>>3101124
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>>3101090
That's because you're looking at their modern forms and not the transition forms that bridged them.
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>>3101090
What the fuck do you mean by "they don't look arabic"
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why does it have arabic in the name when it was the indians who invented it? all arabs did was a dd a few stuff, europeans added stuff to it too and it ain't called European-Arabic-Hindu
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>>3102763
mupa pasta indians th have the control over the trade between mediterranean was populated y people of arabic stock allignment of European minds they gave it to them who were in syncronization
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>>3102788
your post looks informative but I just couldn't decipher it, sorry
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>>3101124
Google translate truly brings cultures together.
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>>3101124
Ay-rabs btfo
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>>3101090
Fuck you, Roman system of numbers are the most needlessly cluttered.
>Reach 50+
>L shows up
>Reach a hundred
>C shows up
Fuck that shit.
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>>3101090
I'm very used to Chinese numerals as well. To me it's even more convenient than Arabic-Hindu numerals sometime. But probably because I'm Chinese in the first place.
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Why is zero universally represented as a circle of some sort? Who started it?
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>>3105277
Nothing is best represented as a hole
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>>3102650
what the fuck is going on with 4 and 5
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