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Subject: Re: Chinese invented number system ?
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--- In agathiyar@y..., MaGo
> கீழ்க்கண்ட செய்தியை இன்று எங்கள் நாளேட்டில் (The Straits Times, Singapore
13.6.2002) முதல் பக்கத்தில் வெளியிடப்பட்டுள்ளது. இதன் தொடர் மற்றொரு பக்கத்தில் வி
வரமாக இடம்பெற்றுள்ளது. இது பற்றி உங்கள் கருத்து என்ன?
>
>
> A SINGAPORE researcher has crushed the long-held belief that the
Arabs and Indians invented the numeral system used today.
>
> In fact, they came up only with the written symbols, says acclaimed
academic Lam Lay Yong, who believes the Chinese invented the numeral
system and were adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing at
least 1,000 years before anyone else, with simple bamboo rods.
The belief is that it was not Arabs who invented the numeral system,
but Indians only.
Secondly, what we are talking is decimal system with zero. Many
cultures have had some written symbols for numbers, but were not
decimal i.e. 10 based. Without 0 decimal system does not work and 0
was the invention of India only.
