The Bizarre Reality About Arabic Numerals

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Hank unravels the fascinating yarn of how the world got here to make use of so-called Arabic numerals — from the scholarship of historical Hindu mathematicians, to Muslim scientist Al-Khwarizmi, to the retailers of medieval Italy.

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