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The Number That Went to Baghdad

In 773 an Indian scholar carried a mathematics book to the caliph’s court in Baghdad. Everything you compute with came out of it.

In 773 an Indian scholar came to the court of the caliph al-Mansur in Baghdad. He had a book of maths.

Everything you have ever counted with starts with that visit.

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