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Fibonacci's Composed Fractions

13 pointsby aebtebetenlast Friday at 1:49 PM2 commentsview on HN

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readthenotes1yesterday at 8:00 PM

It took 200 years for Western Arabic numerals to take over accounting from Roman numerals.

That's a cautionary tale of entrenched interest if I ever heard one.

michaelabrtlast Friday at 1:56 PM

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