The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c8.39
The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c8.39
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² Fazzari, loc. cit., p. 4. So Elia Misrachi (1455–1526) in his posthumous *Book of Number*, Constantinople, 1534, explains *sifra* as being Arabic. See also Steinschneider, *Bibliotheca Mathematica*, 1893, p. 69, and G. Wertheim, *Die Arithmetik des Elia Misrachi*, Programm, Frankfurt, 1893.