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"Leonardo was the son of a customs agent and spent some time interacting with Muslim merchants, where he is thought to have learned the basics of the Hindu-Arabic number system which we still use today." He then wrote a book convincing Italians that the Muslim method of counting and calculating was far superior and simpler than Roman numerals and calculation | |||
One biography claims "As a young boy in medieval Italy, Leonardo Fibonacci thought about numbers day and night. He was such a daydreamer that people called him a blockhead." There is an alternative biography for the man which states that his father was nothing more than a low-level shipping clerk whose name was Bonaccio. Bonaccio, in Italian, means ‘simpleton.’ The nickname Fibonacci means ‘son of simpleton.’ | |||
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Revision as of 18:27, 23 July 2020
"Leonardo was the son of a customs agent and spent some time interacting with Muslim merchants, where he is thought to have learned the basics of the Hindu-Arabic number system which we still use today." He then wrote a book convincing Italians that the Muslim method of counting and calculating was far superior and simpler than Roman numerals and calculation
One biography claims "As a young boy in medieval Italy, Leonardo Fibonacci thought about numbers day and night. He was such a daydreamer that people called him a blockhead." There is an alternative biography for the man which states that his father was nothing more than a low-level shipping clerk whose name was Bonaccio. Bonaccio, in Italian, means ‘simpleton.’ The nickname Fibonacci means ‘son of simpleton.’
