It was this work that Muhammad ibn-Musa al-Khwarizmi in the 9th century was to expand on so successfully. Khwarizmi became known as “the father of algebra” and gave his name to algorithms. The same ...

Arabic numerals are practically ubiquitous in the United States. You can see them in the title of this article, in the publishing date, or on any digital clock. In short, and according to ...

More than half of Americans believe “Arabic numerals” – the standard symbols used across much of the world to denote numbers – should not be taught in school, according to a survey. Fifty-six per cent ...

Q. Is there a way to format dates with Roman numerals in Excel? For example, can I convert April 15, 2023, to 15-IV-2023? A. You can convert dates written with Arabic numerals to dates with Roman ...

Before there was a Western civilization, there was Islamic civilization. By Mustafa Akyol Mr. Akyol is a regular contributing writer of Op-Eds for The Times. Should Americans, as part of their school ...