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The moment you count something, you're doing addition. The moment you trade, you must use numbers. It's really inevitable.
To formalize all of it and expand its scope is another step. It's not like we had a shortage of inventors and geniuses, given that almost all were White.
This is what you claimed:
> we'd have come to the decimal system too...
And you have no way of knowing that.
> It's not like we had a shortage of inventors and geniuses, given that almost all were White.
Romans say hello. MMMCMXCIX.
> Algebra is...
...discovered, studied and spread by a Muslim.
It's likely that it comes to base 10 system, but as I said:
> It's not the best, a hexadecimal system would have been better, but good enough.
But this isn't significant. It's just a number system, and it's mostly about familiarity. One could simply learn to calculate in hexadecimal right now. We are just used to a decimal system our entire lives.
> ...discovered, studied and spread by a Muslim.
From [here](https://www.mathtutordvd.com/public/Who-Invented-Algebra.cfm):
> There are fundamental ideas that relate to algebra that were discovered multiple times by different people who weren't aware of the discoveries being made in other parts of the world. In ancient times, it was comment for discoveries to be made in parallel by different people, as news was slow to travel.
> Ancient Babylon and Egypt are the two places that were at the center of the development of algebra. Both of these civilizations used algebra in different ways and for different reasons, but it's generally accepted that it was the Babylonians who first made basic use of algebra and pioneered its beginnings in the field of mathematics. There is evidence of this that dates back as far as 1900 to 1600 BC. The tablet known as the Plimpton 322 tablet displays Pythagorean triples and other forms of mathematics.
The only difference is that it was "invented" (discovered) ***again*** in a time where the flow of information was more advanced, namely in writing. The muslim was the first one who managed to break through and spread it in a way that lasted. You are hereby permitted to stop sucking muslim dick sore.
The mathematical and logical principles are universally the same, and whoever wants to come up with any system of logic or math will ultimately end up in the SAME system. "Universal" implies it applies for the entire universe.