Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c7.12
Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c7.12
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c7.12
This was the first introduction of the decimal system among the Saracens (830). They have ever since acknowledged their debt to the Hindus. Alberuni (1033) wrote: “The numeral signs which we use are derived from the finest forms of the Hindu signs.”