#Decimal

Emelie Reuterswärd

matemagikern

Tobias Dantzig's book "Number - the language of science" is the best book I've read on the history of mathematics - and I've read a few. Here are some interesting facts

L for linguist

l_linguist

Ok, let's see if I can summaise this in English. I'll go one tweet at a time and try and pick out the main points, but my English is far

Hindu Imperium

KaivalyaVishwa1

Western claims about Greek astronomy and maths in general and about Ptolemy in particular are deeply problematic.We have no sure means to actually know what exactly this ptolemy discovered.why?Thread.https://twitter.com/Hiranyareta/status/1

Anonymous Seeker

mysql_sync

#Thread #Encryption_In_Ancient_IndiaGrahacaraṇibandhana Based In The Year 683 CE And Laghubhaskariyavivarana Based In The Year 869 CE Speak Of A Certain Numerical Notation Which Goes By The Name @Sanjay_Dixit @VandanaJayrajan @agniveer

विपाशा रंजन

DharmaSuta

How Bharat educated the world:The story starts from 5th century when feudalism was growing fast in the world, Bharat was epicenter of civilization,Romans got collapsed in West and onslaught of

Hoefler&Co.

HoeflerCo

“Wakamai Fondue”, by @PixelAmbacht, is so wonderfully useful, elegant, and ridonculously easy to use. Drag a font into the browser, and see what your font can do:http://hflr.co/934np Super helpful character

पुनरुत्थान Resurgence ॐ

punarUtthana108

Mathematics is science that deals with logic of shape, quantity and arrangementMath is all around usAncient Rishis of India contributed incredibly in MathWithout Indians, no worthwhile scientific discovery could have

Joseph T Noony

JoeAgneya

#PiApproximationDayHere is the Indian story of Pi-Yajnavalkya 2000BCE->339/108=3.1388..(.09% error)Baudhayana 1700BC 3.08Jainas 400BC 3.16Aryabhata 499CE 3.1416Govindaswami 800CE 3.14159265Madhava,1370 3.14159265358Nilakanta 1480, 'F

evillure

_evillure

India's inventions, discoveries and contribution to the world. (Thread) 1. Diamonds. The earliest discovery of diamonds was in India in 4th century BC and were worn as adornments, used for

Jon Schwabish

jschwabish

I recently published "Ten Guidelines for Better Tables" in the Journal of Benefit Cost Analysis (@benefitcost) on ways to improve your data tables. Here's a thread summarizing the 10 guidelines.

foone

Foone

no, spellchecker, please don't auto-correct "ebcdic" to "bodice" WHAT EVEN IS THE DIFFERENCE? EBCDIC was devised by IBM in the early 60s, it's a family of character encodings used on

Erhire Mag

ErhireMagnus

Herder-Farmer conflicts has been a reoccurring decimal in history. It would be easy to flip back the pages of history books for possible solutions. Particularly in Nigeria it has been

Raymond Hettinger

raymondh

#Python tip: Given inexact data, subtracting nearly equalvalues increases relative error significantly morethan absolute error.4.6 ± 0.2 Age of Earth (4.3%)4.2 ± 0.1 Age of Oceans (2.4%)___0.4 ± 0.3 Huge

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AlmightyTre1

Forex 101 - Week 1, Day 1 What is forex? The foreign exchange market is a global decentralized market for the trading of currencies. This market determines foreign exchange rates

Dave Anderson

dave_universetf

In my quest to write a fast IPv4+6 parser, I have written a slow-but-I-think-correct parser, to use as a base of comparison.In doing so, I have discovered more cursed IP

ONE WISE MAN™ | Good Habits. Good Life

OneWiseMan__

Some Mind-Blowing Facts About Indian History Every Indian Should Know.// A Thread // (1/9)>> India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history. (2/9)>> Although modern images

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