Europe was entering its Dark Ages, nursing its dwindling links to a dead Roman culture. ... They endeavoured to acquire the knowledge of previous civilizations by obtaining Egyptian, Babylonian, Indian, Chinese, Farsi, Armenian, Hebrew and Roman texts and translating them into Arabic. ... Four hundred years later, Fibonacci wrote his groundbreaking Liber abaci to introduce modern (Arabic) numerals and the Hindu-Arabic decimal system to a Europe still muddling with Roman numerals. ...

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