History Unplugged Podcast

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Scott Rank

Arabic Numerals Took Over 600 Years To Spread Across the West

November 23, 2017   ●   8 min

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Western scholars first encountered "Arabic" numerals in the seventh century, making mathematics and accounting much easier. But Roman numerals stubbornly stuck around until the invention of the printing press made them permanently obsolete.

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