Re: [OT] Square Root (was Re: fribidi + joining/shaping)

["Youcef Rabah Rahal" <yrrahal42 at hotmail dot com>]

Hi,

Check this link http://www.roma.unisa.edu.au/07305/symbols.htm#Radical .This 
is the one I could find by now. It says however that the arabic "Jidhr" sign 
didn't influence the europeans. But it shows at least that I am not crazy ! 
(it is the website of an australian university).

I can give you also the reference of this book (in french, sorry): 
http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2020395495/171-0006224-1764278 .It is 
written by a serious person that works in Orsay university in "Paris" on the 
history of science (in europe ;)). There you can find arabic original texts 
written in north africa long before the europeans started to use the radical 
sign.

Europeans stated for centuries that the arabs were only a link between 
greece and the modern civilization and tried to occult their contribution. 
Now the europeans themselves (based on manuscripts) recognize that the arabs 
did a considerable work in maths, physics, chemistry, medecine etc... and 
recognize the past occultation.

Now, did the arabs or the europeans invent the radical sign ? I think that 
it has no influence on how to solve the actual issues
of Unicode and so on ;) I wanted only to show that this is neither a Myth 
nor a lie.

Youcef.

PS: I apologize for opening this parenthesis (which i close definetely) on 
the developer list.


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