The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c12.114

c12.114

¹ The i is used for "one" in the Treviso arithmetic (1478), Clichtoveus (c. 1507 ed., where both i and j are so used), Chiarini (1481), Sacrobosco (1488 ed.), and Tzwivel (1507 ed., where jj and jz are used for 11 and 12). This was not universal, however, for the *Algorithmus linealis* of c. 1488 has a special type for 1. In a student's notebook of lectures taken at the University of Würzburg in 1660, in Mr. Plimpton's library, the ones are all in the form of i.