CONTEMPORARY WORLD CIVILIZATIONS (ÇAĞDAŞ DÜNYA UYGARLIKLARI) - (İNGİLİZCE) Dersi Hindu and Buddhist Civilizations soru detayı:

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SORU:

What was one of the most important achievements of India?


CEVAP:

One of India’s most important achievements was the creation of ordinal numbers from 1 to 9. These numbers which form the basis for numeracy today were originally called Indian numerals. When transferred to the Middle East and then to Europe, they were named as Arabic numbers. This export from India to the rest of the world has had an enormous effect on commerce and business everywhere. Notably, as a replacement for the Roman numeral system, it facilitated the rise of central procedures in other civilizations, for example, the emergence of transactions such as double-entry bookkeeping in the West.