The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c6.103

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The last of these is merely a cursive form as in the Arabic ۲, which becomes our 2 if tipped through a right angle. From some primitive = came the Chinese symbol, which is practically identical with the symbols found commonly in India from 150 B.C. to 700 A.D. In the cursive form it becomes Z, and this was frequently used for two in Germany until the 18th century. It finally went into the modern form 2, and the ☱ in the same way became our 3.