The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c11.13
The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c11.13
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c11.13
Even in literature of the better class there appears now and then some stray proof of the important fact that the great trade routes to the far East were never closed for long, and that the customs and marks of trade endured from generation to generation. The *Gulistān* of the Persian poet Sa‘dī¹ contains such a passage: