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Then as an Arab you would be truly pissed about how much of the basic sciences were lifted from the Arabic world, without any kind of attribution in modern times.


If there was any contribution by any Arab then it should be attributed. Where did I say otherwise? All I was talking about was contribution by Hindu mathematicians which was not just appropriated (I'm not against this) but their contribution forgotten/neglected (which kinda pisses me off).

In fact, even in another Hackernews post about "Box Breathing" I made a similar comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13512908

I'm not against appropriation but, at the same time, I'm also against whitewashing. Does this make sense?




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