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Excerpt from The Complete Practical Arithmetician: Containing Several New and Useful Improvements Adapted to the Use of Schools and Private Tuition
For the excellent method of Notation now in hue, called the Arabian, (because the Europeans had it from the Arabians,) we are indebted to the genius of the Eastern nations. The Indians are acknowledged to be the inventors of it; but, at what time, or how long it was before the Arabians got it, we are quite ignomnx. We have suficient reason to believe that the ancient Greeks and Romans knew nothing of it, as Maximus Pianodes, the tirat Greek writer who treated of Arith metic according to the Arabian Notation, acknowledges it to be his 0,1iuiou, that the Indians were the inventors, from whom the Arabians got it, and the Europeans from the Arabians. Now, this writer, according to Vossius, ¿ourished about the year of Christ or, according to'kircher, 1270, and this was long after the Arabian Notation was known in Europe. For, Dr. Wallace proves.
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