In our time, it’s common to see someone spontaneously getting a piercing simply for it’s aesthetic appeal. However, piercing has an astoundingly ancient origin and has even been assimilated into rituals within certain tribes. Ear piercing: The story goes that sailors would don a golden earing so that they might sell it to finance their [...]
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Contrary to their name, it wasn’t the Arabs that came up with these numbers. Rather, it was the Indians! In Europe, Roman numerals were used until up to the Middles Ages. So to write 138, you essentially had to write 100+10+10+10+5+1+1+1, i.e. CXXXVIII. With this system, arithmatic operations were inevitably extremely complicated. At the same [...]