[lbo-talk] arabic numerals

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 3 22:01:41 PDT 2007


Are a terrorist plot. I will only use Roman numerals from now on, Ms CXXIIIhop at comcast. The question is what to do about "zero," another terrorist invention. Well, maybe we would just try to get along without it. Computer programming will be harder, of course.

--- joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


> Why they look the way they look....
>
> ....according to a friend, according to a Phoenician
> ms., it's because
> each has the equivalent number of angles (if you
> substitute angles for
> the curves): 1 has one angle, 2 (like a z) has two
> angles, 3 has three,
> etc. 0 has no angles.
>
> Anyway, good thing to tell the kids.
>
> Urban legend?
>
> Joanna
>
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