The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c5.18

c5.18

¹ Thus in a commentary by 'Alī ibn Abī Bekr ibn al-Jamāl al-Anṣārī al-Mekkī on a treatise on ġobār arithmetic (explained later) called *Al-murshidah*, found by Woepcke in Paris (*Propagation*, p. 66), there is mentioned the fact that there are "nine Indian figures" and "a second kind of Indian figures . . . although these are the figures of the ġobār writing." So in a commentary by Ḥosein ibn Moḥammed al-Maḥallī (died in 1756) on the *Mokhlaṣar fī 'ilm el-ḥisāb* (Extract from Arithmetic) by 'Abdalqādir ibn 'Alī al-Sakhāwī (died c. 1000) it is related that "the preface treats of the forms of the figures of Hindu signs, such as were established by the Hindu nation." [Woepcke, *Propagation*, p. 63.]