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The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c9.65

The Hindu-Arabic Numerals c9.65

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c9.65

¹ Carra de Vaux, *Avicenne*, Paris, 1900; Woepcke, *Sur l'introduction*, etc.; Gerhardt, *Entstehung* etc., p. 20. Avicenna is a corruption from Ibn Sīnā, as pointed out by Wüstenfeld, *Geschichte der arabischen Aerzte und Naturforscher*, Göttingen, 1840. His full name is Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥosein ibn Sīnā. For notes on Avicenna's arithmetic, see Woepcke, *Propagation*, p. 502.