The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c6.111

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¹ For a bibliography of the principal hypotheses of this nature see Bühler, loc. cit., p. 77. Bühler (p. 78) feels that of all these hypotheses that which connects the Brāhmī with the Egyptian numerals is the most plausible, although he does not adduce any convincing proof. Th. Henri Martin, “Les signes numéraux et l’arithmétique chez les peuples de l’antiquité et du moyen âge” (being an examination of Cantor’s *Mathematische Beiträge zum Culturleben der Völker*), *Annali di matematica pura ed applicata*, Vol. V, Rome, 1864, pp. 8, 70. Also, same author, “Recherches nouvelles sur l’origine de notre système de numération écrite,” *Revue Archéologique*, 1857, pp. 36, 55. See also the tables given later in this work.