Started learning Java for Android app development but gave that up for health reasons.
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Not to be "that guy", but western numbers are not Arabian. They actually came from India. They were called Arabic numbers because at the time they made their way to the western world (modern day Europe), the crusades were happening and that's where we got the knowledge of "Arabic" numerals. They made their way to Arabia from trade links between them and India via the silk road.
I'm no expert, but I got this from a podcast called "you're dead to me" on BBC about history. Very interesting (no, I'm not affiliated 🤣)
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After doing a bit of research myself, I conclude that I should've done my research better before hitting that "Publish" button... 😅 You're absolutely right, will correct that right away, thank you!
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Scratched the original explanation and added the correct one with credits to you. I really didn't do my research good enough there and ended up with this false piece of info. Thank you for pointing that out, helps a great deal to improve the quality of my posts 🙂
Started learning Java for Android app development but gave that up for health reasons.
Completed a DevOps Bootcamp with Purple Beard Training, and now learning Front end Development with Scrimba.
Didn't mean to be a detractor from a very good written article. I only learnt a couple of weeks ago myself from that podcast and had always thought they were Arabic too. Just spreading the useless information I pickup so easily (just wish I could do the same with coding 😂).
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Not to be "that guy", but western numbers are not Arabian. They actually came from India. They were called Arabic numbers because at the time they made their way to the western world (modern day Europe), the crusades were happening and that's where we got the knowledge of "Arabic" numerals. They made their way to Arabia from trade links between them and India via the silk road.
I'm no expert, but I got this from a podcast called "you're dead to me" on BBC about history. Very interesting (no, I'm not affiliated 🤣)
After doing a bit of research myself, I conclude that I should've done my research better before hitting that "Publish" button... 😅 You're absolutely right, will correct that right away, thank you!
Scratched the original explanation and added the correct one with credits to you. I really didn't do my research good enough there and ended up with this false piece of info. Thank you for pointing that out, helps a great deal to improve the quality of my posts 🙂
Didn't mean to be a detractor from a very good written article. I only learnt a couple of weeks ago myself from that podcast and had always thought they were Arabic too. Just spreading the useless information I pickup so easily (just wish I could do the same with coding 😂).