
184: No Such Thing As Dinosaur Diaries
No Such Thing As A Fish
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The Ancient Roots of Modern Science
In late mediaeval times, arabic numbers were coming over from india. They were better than roman numerals and you could do things like long multiplication. But the authorities in europe didn't trust them, so they should have banned them. So it meant that there were these street performers who kind of had thi secret knowledge of arabic Numbers. And so they could do what seemed like incredible multiplication. I mean, it was quite simple, know, be like 12 times 16,. which obviously we can edit out the huge pores while we'll work their ois a os, four times three hundredoh, wa. Nott, that then.
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