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    no he's saying they're made in china, not invented there. and the numerals are arabic, not hindu - only zero is hindu

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    The Hindu-Arabic numerals were invented in India and thus called "Hindu numerals" by Persian mathematician Khowarizmi. They were later called "Arabic" numerals by Europeans, because they were introduced in the West by Arabized Berbers of North Africa
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