The logic behind "arabic numbers"

[yessy]

so it might be true...

[Zayn]

Originally Posted by Ana

the numbers as we know them have slightly changed. The angle theory is actually correct. Was it Phoenecians who came up with it?? We Lebanese like to attribute all the major achievements in the old world to our "supposed-to-be" ancestors! We somehow have an inferiority complex and treat that by saying phoencians were super people!

Thank you. This "Phoenician" garbage that has polluted the minds of Lebanese is nothing more than annoying nowadays.

[LiNk]

Originally Posted by Zayn

Thank you. This "Phoenician" garbage that has polluted the minds of Lebanese is nothing more than annoying nowadays.

It is really a shame for some to undermine 7'000 years of history.

Our country's history has now become "garbage" ?

This complex of "if we say we're Phoenicians means we're denying our Arab identity" is what's really annoying.

Greeks have their own history too and they take pride with it, the French as well, but does that make them non-Europeans?

No.

Thank you for this thread, and specially for the explanations from dataccess. Really interesting.

This, at least, is some kind of decent contribution to world chronicles, other than that, all we gave was nothing else than barbarism decadence and wars.

[JD06]

Originally Posted by Zayn

Thank you. This "Phoenician" garbage that has polluted the minds of Lebanese is nothing more than annoying nowadays.

actually the phoenicians wer great people thyr contribution to the world cannot be denied...what is annoying is when lebanese who have nothing to do with the phoenicians(maronites mostly) like to change history claim thy are decended from them. thts like saying in 2500 the pakistanis who live in england now will start saying thy are decended from the anglo-saxons.

anyway about the numbers no one has yet to explain why you count the angles made with the baseline for the 7 but not for the 1? plus who writes a 9 like that?