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“Before the Arabic numerals replaced the Roman ones, the hexadecimal system (taken from Chinese) was present in italian which didn't recognize 'Zero' - hence,…

— Ibrahim Ibrahim

“This partial script was composed of ten signs, representing the numbers from 0 to 9. Confusingly, these signs are known as Arabic numerals even…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Two of the most famous Baghdadi scholars, the philosopher Al-Kindi and the mathematician Al-Khawarizmi, were certainly the most influential in transmitting Hindu numerals to…

— Jim Al-Khalili

It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

“By the latter part of the first millennium of the Current Era, the system we use today to write numbers and do arithmetic had…

— Keith J. Devlin

“The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value)…

— Pierre Simon De Laplace

“Underlying all this activity—in the customhouses, on the wharves, in every place of business—were numbers. Merchants measured out their wares and negotiated prices; customs…

— Keith J. Devlin

“The choice of ten basic number symbols—that is, the Hindus’ choice of the base 10 for counting and doing arithmetic—is presumably a direct consequence…

— Keith J. Devlin

“The number system we use today—the Hindu-Arabic system—was developed in India and seems to have been completed by around 700 CE. Indian mathematicians made…

— Keith J. Devlin

“There is only one universal language, which is the language of numbers and proportions that are so striking and stunningly built into the Great…

— Willem Witteveen

“Before the spread of alphabetic writing, systems making much use of logograms were more common and included Egyptian hieroglyphs, Maya glyphs, and Sumerian cuneiform.”

— Jared Diamond

“Numbers in roman type refer to illustrations in the Photos section; numbers in italics refer to book pages.”

— Walter Isaacson