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The Weird Truth About Arabic Numerals

2013 • E135    Sep 3, 2013    10m
Hank unravels the fascinating yarn of how the world came to use so-called Arabic numerals -- from the scholarship of ancient Hindu mathematicians, to Muslim scientist Al-Khwarizmi, to the merchants of medieval Italy.

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