Mike said: > Hey, Gary, there's a whole bunch of us not afraid to say that Western > democracy is better by far than anything the Muslims have done since the > invention of zero.
The Muslims may have contributed many worthwhile things to civilisation but the invention of zero wasn't one of them. So far as I know, the idea of "zero" in number systems was independently invented by the Babylonians, the Mayans and the Indians (before Islam!); the Arabs learned about zero from India, and then passed the idea on to Europe. Rich _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
