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Vol 4 Ep 3 - The Abbasid Caliphate

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Al Arismi and the House of Wisdom

Mathematicians such as al arismi would build upon the work of the classical world experts by taking mathematical ideas on to a more advanced level. By re vamping the numerical system to a decimal system that had an individual symbol for each number from zero to nine, advanced calculations were made more practical. It would be after this period that a form of this decimal system would filter through the margrabe and across the mediterranean to alandelus where it would eventually be adopted by europeans.

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