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Fun With Numbers
By Daniel Miessler on February 19th, 2007: Tagged as
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Fun With Numbers
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Daniel Miessler
I think I agree. There's probably some shred of real information here, but the 8 and 9 are so obvious.
Arik
Donno about that, looks a bit like the drawn numbers were drawn to fit the theory rather to prove it. Look at 7, 8, 9 and 2.
Sorry, personally I don't buy it. Take a look at older numerals in
http://www.skypoint.com/~waltzmn/Mathematics.ht...
Also, since the Arabs invented the modern day Algebra and the zero, you'd think their numbers are the "originals" Arabic numerals. No angles there. Take a look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals
-- Arik
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