The semantics of Indian numerals in Arabic, Greek and Latin (Q935686)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5309018
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The semantics of Indian numerals in Arabic, Greek and Latin
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5309018

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    The semantics of Indian numerals in Arabic, Greek and Latin (English)
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    7 August 2008
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    The history of the spread of Indian numerals via Arabic authors to Europe, in particular the spread of the Indian method of computation, called algorism (given that it arrived to Europe via al-Khwarizmi's writings on Indian calculation), which replaced the abacus.
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