Assertion: arabic numeral's origin | /r/HasProperty | algebra
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text: - The 9 Indian symbols are largely incidental and of very little significance to their transmission to the West, what was transmitted were "new arithmetics" and methods of calculations for which any symbols would've sufficed, as the words of Arabic origin "Algebra" and "Algorithm" make clear, and there were plenty of Indian symbols the Arabs could've chosen from, or they could've even made their own even inspired by Indian symbols.