The Hindu-Arabic NumeralsCourier Corporation, 1 gen 2004 - 160 pagine The numbers that we call Arabic are so familiar throughout Europe and the Americas that it can be difficult to realize that their general acceptance in commercial transactions is a matter of only the last four centuries and they still remain unknown in parts of the world. |
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EARLY IDEAS OF THEIR ORIGIN | 1 |
EARLY HINDU FORMS WITH NO PLACE VALUE | 12 |
LATER HINDU FORMS WITH A PLACE VALUE | 38 |
THE SYMBOL ZERO | 51 |
THE QUESTION OF THE INTRODUCTION OF THE NUMERALS INTO EUROPE BY BOETHIUS | 63 |
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The Hindu-Arabic Numerals, Volume 10 David Eugene Smith,Louis Charles Karpinski Visualizzazione completa - 1911 |