The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c11.99

c11.99

⁶ Friedlein thought it spurious. See *Zeitschrift für Mathematik und Physik*, Vol. XII (1867), Hist.-lit. suppl., p. 74. It was discovered in the library of the Benedictine monastry of St. Peter, at Salzburg, and was published by Peter Bernhard Pez in 1721. Doubt was first cast upon it in the Olleris edition (*Œuvres de Gerbert*). See Weissenborn, *Gerbert*, pp. 2, 6, 168, and Picavet, p. 81. Hock, Cantor, and Th. Martin place the composition of the work at c. 996 when Gerbert was in Germany, while Olleris and Picavet refer it to the period when he was at Rheims.