The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c10.7
The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c10.7
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c10.7
The three writers mentioned cover the period from the end of the eighth to the end of the ninth century. While the historians Al-Mas‘ūdī and Al-Bīrūnī follow quite closely upon the men mentioned, it is well to note again the Arab writers on Hindu arithmetic, contemporary with Al-Khowārazmī, who were mentioned in chapter I, viz. Al-Kindī, Sened ibn ‘Alī, and Al-Ṣūfī.