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To: RS

every culture has changed the world, and all of them for the better.

Tell us again how islamic culture has changed the world for the better.

120 posted on 08/19/2006 12:51:09 PM PDT by Rider on the Rain

To: Rider on the Rain

I believe it was the Arabs who came up with the concept of "zero", allowing the entire of mathematics to open up.

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Zero.html

167 posted on 08/20/2006 6:59:59 PM PDT by RS ("I took the drugs because I liked them and I found excuses to take them, so I'm not weaseling.")

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