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The book presents a compact history of the numeral signs that developed in South Asia and later became dominant in western arithmetic. It surveys early non-place-value Hindu notations, the later adoption of positional value and the invention and notation of zero, competing origin theories and contested claims of early introduction into Europe, and the evolution of the forms among Arabic scholars. The narrative draws on inscriptions, manuscripts, and scholarly opinions, offers pronunciation and transliteration aids for Oriental names, and records the transmission and gradual spread of the system across medieval Europe.


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