The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c9.151

c9.151

⁵ E.g., it appears in Schonerus, *Algorithmus Demonstratvs*, Nürnberg, 1534, f. A 4. In England it appeared in the earliest English arithmetical manuscript known, *The Crafte of Nombrynge*: "¶ fforthermore ye most vndirstonde that in this craft ben vsid teen figurys, as here bene writen for ensampul, ø 9 8 7 6 ५ 8 3 2 1 . . . in the quych we vse teen figurys of Inde. Questio. ¶ why ten fyguris of Inde? Solucio. for as I have sayd afore thei were fonde fyrst in Inde of a kynge of that Cuntre, that was called Algor." See Smith, *An Early English Algorism*, loc. cit.