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You originally said the Arabs invented zero. Which is bollux. Or was that your fellow thicko churchy? So much gobtulipe comes from you two, I can't remember which is which.
Tell you what - you keep pulling your willy over the Babylonians as they get you so hot.
The rest of us will get on with using our knowledge to rake it in.
HTH
From what you've demonstrated so far you must be on a piss-poor rate. Talking it up ain't going to get you a rate increase.
You originally said the Arabs invented zero. Which is bollux. Or was that your fellow thicko churchy? So much gobtulipe comes from you two, I can't remember which is which.
Tell you what - you keep pulling your willy over the Babylonians as they get you so hot.
The rest of us will get on with using our knowledge to rake it in.
HTH
Well here was me thinking that ancient Babylon was populated by Iraqi/Arabs
silly me.
for anyone who is still interested, here is how the ancient arabs used their zero (which was in fact a blank space) for the sake of argument assume we all used base 10.
they would have written 508
5 8 (five hundreds, no tens , eight units)
they would have know it was not 58 or 5008 by the context, but its still a bit dodgy to our eyes.
there are some who claim they put a dot in, for each space
5'8
the Hindus (and possibly others) ,said no, this space is not only confusing, but it is a real number, so they gave it a character and a name. but they were not the first with the concept
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Well as I spent my last 2 years in Engineering studying dynamics and acoustics I think I have a far greater understanding of the subject than yourself.
You strike me as a nurse thinking they have a degree in medicine.
Well as I spent my last 2 years in Engineering studying dynamics and acoustics I think I have a far greater understanding of the subject than yourself.
You strike me as a nurse thinking they have a degree in medicine.
You think? There's no element of doubt there, is there?
You did two years at University studying a subject that may have used DSPs as part of the course and you say without a shadow of a doubt that you know more about their operation and programming than a man who has been writing DSP software for the past 15 years?
Have a(nother) drink mate because you're delusional.
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