Radio Free Trumpistan on Nostr: Rusty, you're quite correct about the enlightened Arabs. You just can't do science ...

Rusty, you're quite correct about the enlightened Arabs. You just can't do science with Roman numerals--no zero. It was during the Dark Ages when Europe had to deal with Arabs, then subsequently got dragged kicking and screaming into adopting Arabic numerals and Arabic math which included the zero, which Romans didn't have.