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The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c6.45

The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c6.45

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c6.45

In the so-called Śaka inscriptions, possibly of the first century B.C., more numerals are found, and in more highly developed form, the right-to-left system appearing, together with evidences of three different scales of counting, — four, ten, and twenty. The numerals of this period are as follows: