The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c5.12

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c5.12

⁴ "Barbarische oder gemeine Ziffern." [Anonymous, *Das Einmahl Eins cum notis variorum*, Dresden, 1703, p. 3.] So Vossius (*De universae matheseos natura et constitutione liber*, Amsterdam, 1650, p. 34) calls them "Barbaras numeri notas." The word at that time was possibly synonymous with Arabic.

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