Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c7.9

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c7.9

Numerals have been in use in India since at least the third century B.C. They were employed in the Minor Rock Edicts of Asoka the Great (256 B.C.). In modern times the numerals are wrongly known as "Arabic" because the European nations got them from their Saracen (Arab) teachers.⁶¹

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