Re: Why are Asians so good at math?
- From: hrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Herman Rubin)
- Date: 2 Mar 2006 12:12:37 -0500
In article <3166710.1141109646957.JavaMail.jakarta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mehtab Singh <get_harry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
HI PPL
DOnt forget the numeric symbols(including zero) which Newton and all other western scientists used were developed in India(Asia) and before that roman symbols were used to do calculations. U can imagine its an herculean task to do a simple calculation with roman symbols. So we gave platform to all.
Westerners were very comman students in Nalanda, Taxila UNiversities in India. And I am talkin in BCs and early ADs guys.
Dont discriminate try to appreciate.
Egyptian and Greek decimal calculations were done much as
using the Hindu-Arabic system; they did not have a zero
symbol, and used different representations for different
powers of 10, or multiples of such, but the calculations
were much the same, and Roman numerals do not make it that
much harder.
But even before that, we have the Sumerian-Babylonian system
with base 60, using the same symbols, and occasionally using
their 0 symbol to indicate power of 60 which "did not occur"
in the representation. This is over 4000 years old, and it
is believed that those in India who developed the current
system for base 10 adapted the Babylonian base 60.
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