{"id":51811,"date":"2015-07-22T08:59:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T14:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/22\/the-not-history-of-numbers.html"},"modified":"2015-07-25T10:22:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T16:22:33","slug":"the-not-history-of-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/22\/the-not-history-of-numbers.html","title":{"rendered":"The Not-History of Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, the original Arabic numbers didn&#39;t use the &quot;number of angles \/ corners&quot; in the figure to determine their values. They also didn&#39;t look like that.  (Read the article for some <i>real<\/i> history, however.)<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103748887870095862080\" oid=\"103748887870095862080\">Les Jenkins<\/a><\/span>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/factually.gizmodo.com\/no-this-viral-image-does-not-explain-the-history-of-ar-1719306568'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Ej-xJvN9rxDKI2h9J7iCbPZAQk7AwCaXj9kzdAroiRQUMkedm5fHQ98QgdxtkyAoURCYEEioCVh8jU-qtTv5jXooLx__MBtakyeHHbkn3u5eiJYV0yQyVnKKcPMSIGJdq-4-03S_1jv8vSUo_1wKsxs8jC8pYz2FbOV-o8rPN9lLKI0sMVUAGtJeyGslxSh1PW-7CnqBfw=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/factually.gizmodo.com\/no-this-viral-image-does-not-explain-the-history-of-ar-1719306568'>No, This Viral Image Does Not Explain the History of Arabic Numerals<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nYour cousin&rsquo;s Facebook friends are probably going nuts over this image that claims to show how the early history of Arabic geometric design informs how we write numerals today. &ldquo;Each figure contains its own number of corners and angles,&rdquo; reads the text. That&rsquo;s half-true of the drawings in the image. The rest is patently false.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/NW9YbVqWJz8'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, the original Arabic numbers didn&#39;t use the &quot;number of angles \/ corners&quot; in the figure to determine their values. They also didn&#39;t look like that. (Read the article for some real history, however.) (h\/t +Les Jenkins) No, This Viral Image Does Not Explain the History of Arabic Numerals Your cousin&rsquo;s Facebook friends are probably &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/22\/the-not-history-of-numbers.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Not-History of Numbers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134985,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/07\/obama-administration-numbers.html","url_meta":{"origin":51811,"position":0},"title":"The Obama Administration, by the numbers","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 7-Oct-17 3:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Some of these stats couldn't be completed until final reports were in for the Federal Fiscal Year ending in September. 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