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The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c7.50

The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c7.50

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c7.50

² Noviomagus, in his *De numeris libri duo*, Paris, 1539, confesses his ignorance as to the origin of the zero, but says: "D. Henricus Grauius, vir Graecè & Hebraicè eximè doctus, Hebraicam originem ostendit," adding that Valla "Indis Orientalibus gentibus inventionem tribuit."