• Zerush@lemmy.mlOP
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    Yes, monks are authors of scientific works, but as said, only if it not denies the Dogma (if they don’t wanted to burn) , also not accessible by the people and only for the elites, apart it wasn’t really science how we understand it now, it was more a process to adapt theories to fit the Dogma. But they invent also very nice things, eg. in the middle age, a number system to write numbers fro 1 to 9999 in one sign by Cistercian monks.

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      This is brilliant! Now finish it by making 100000 a “knot” by making it like 99999 but fill in the missing side bars. Then start a new hundred thousand knot by using a hyphen. So 100001 would be [knot]-[1]

      Now we just need to get rid of computers, typewriters and technology so this can be rightly appreciated.