The digits we commonly use are an adaptation of Arabic numerals based upon Indian digits (an Indian "invented" zero/null), which make calculations a great deal simpler. Can you readily multiply CCXII ...

Have you ever carefully noticed the digits we use every day - 1, 2, 3, and so on? Have you asked yourself where they came from? Most people think, since we refer to them as "Arabic numerals," that ...

Before the 13th century Europeans used Roman numerals to do arithmetic. Leonardo of Pisa, better known today as Fibonacci, is largely responsible for the adoption of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system in ...

It could be said that we actually write numbers from right to left. Take the number 134 for example. You right the hundreds first(1) followed by the tens(3) followed by the units (4). Surely it would ...

I refer to the letter Whimsical interpretation of Islam wrong where the writer stated: '... allow me to point to one (out of many) very significant contributions of Islam to science, the Arabic ...