Tuesday 8 April 2008

Why the Arabic numbers won

Daughter was reading a catalouge with seeds this evening. She got upset that the number of seeds was marked with M for thousand and that was not correct in her SI-System manner of thinking.

Yes, I replied but M is in the old Roman system that every honest film has in the end with the production year.

Ok she said but the Arabic system won because the Romans forgot one very important thing in there system.. they haven´t got any zero..

3 comments:

ANNA-LYS said...

LOL
That is funny that nada can be fun :-)

Thanks for Your comment, but I do not understand it in relation to the content in the post.

ANNA-LYS said...

jaha, varför är du tyken?

Anonymous said...

Yeah, but the "0" was originally from India...