Digital Rare Book:
A comparative study of the early treatises introducing into Europe the Hindu art of reckoning
By Suzan Rose Benedict
Published by the University of Michigan - 1916

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Image:
Entries from an anonymous Italian Arithmetica Pratica (1575) stress the use of “Hindu Arabic” numerals and their algorithms. The manuscript shown above was handwritten with a quill pen in humanistic cursive. It is unique and perhaps was intended for personal reference or for teaching notes in a reckoning school.

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