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Maths in the Early Islamic World

In Our Time

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The Indian Contribution to Astronomy

The babylonians and losti used lots of different units of measurement, which slowly coalesced into sixties. Why was their number based 60? We don't know. The indian contribution is from 800 b c through to the period we're oing to be talking about. So i meante indian mathematics continued to be amazing up to about 12 hundred a d.

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