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Dates Dates were considered a miracle food by the ancient nomadic desert Arabs who called them the bread of the desert.
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posted on: Nov 19, 2014
The Arabs developed the concept of irrational numbers, made algebra an exact science, founded analytical geometry, plane and spherical trigonometry, and incorporated into mathematics the dimension of time.