Jim
>>I think they were the originators of zero too (giving them the whole set < s >).<<
Yes, but then you get into arguments re whether they are arabic or hindu-arabic (or arabic-hindu) numerals. The concept of Zero definitely spread from India.
Amazing how a thread called "Election Highlights" ends up looking at the basis of math. < g >
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1