I'm still thinking about how this guy is the kind of Christian conservative who thinks it's even POSSIBLE to know more mathematics in AD 800 than now Like the actual massive, gigantic advances in math since then are all just passing fashionshttps://twitter.com/johnpauldickson/status/1278997229068406789 …
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"Algorithm" eventually just came to mean a systematic method for doing things but the original "algorism" was specifically doing arithmetic on paper, the magic of positional notation
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Those tricks you learned in grade school about how to add up multi-digit numbers? Write down the ones digit then carry the tens digit to the column to the left? That was legitimately magic to Europeans, a mysterious dark art from the Orient
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