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In 1973, he swapped the Roman numerals for Arabic, and created an equation that would let you calculate decimal values if your alien civilization fell somewhere in the middle.
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So he defined a Type I civilization… that’s a Roman numeral one… as using close to what humanity was using at the time: around 40 quintillion ergs per second.
Way back in 1202, Leonardo of Pisa, also known as Fibonacci, wrote a book in which he introduced Europe to the Arabic numerals we use today.
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