The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c9.3

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¹ *Propagation*, pp. 27, 234, 442. Treutlein, "Das Rechnen im 16. Jahrhundert," *Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Mathematik*, Vol. I, p. 5, favors the same view. It is combated by many writers, e.g. A.C. Burnell, loc. cit., p. 59. Long before Woepcke, I. F. and G. I. Weidler, *De characteribus numerorum vulgaribus et eorum aetatibus*, Wittenberg, 1727, asserted the possibility of their introduction into Greece by Pythagoras or one of his followers: "Potuerunt autem ex oriente, uel ex phoenicia, ad graecos traduci, uel Pythagorae, uel eius discipulorum auxilio, cum aliquis eo, proficiendi in literis causa, iter faceret, et hoc quoque inuentum addisceret."