d is their use even at the
present time, and how slow the world has been and is in adopting such a
simple device as the Hindu-Arabic numerals.

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INDEX

_Transcriber's note: many of the entries refer to footnotes linked from the
page numbers given._

Abbo of Fleury, 122
`Abdall[=a]h ibn al-[H.]asan, 92
`Abdallat[=i]f ibn Y[=u]suf, 93
`Abdalq[=a]dir ibn `Al[=i] al-Sakh[=a]w[=i], 6
Abenragel, 34
Abraham ibn Meir ibn Ezra, _see_ Rabbi ben Ezra
Ab[=u] `Al[=i] al-[H.]osein ibn S[=i]n[=a], 74
Ab[=u] 'l-[H.]asan, 93, 100
Ab[=u] 'l-Q[=a]sim, 92
Ab[=u] 'l-[T.]eiyib, 97
Ab[=u] Na[s.]r, 92
Ab[=u] Roshd, 113
Abu Sahl Dunash ibn Tamim, 65, 67
Adelhard of Bath, 5, 55, 97, 119, 123, 126
Adhemar of Chabanois, 111
A[h.]med al-Nasaw[=i], 98
A[h.]med ibn `Abdall[=a]h, 9, 92
A[h.]med ibn Mo[h.]ammed, 94
A[h.]med ibn `Omar, 93
Ak[s.]aras, 32
Alanus ab Insulis, 124
Al-Ba[.g]d[=a]d[=i], 93
Al-Batt[=a]n[=i], 54
Albelda (Albaida) MS., 116
Albert, J., 62
Albert of York, 103
Al-B[=i]r[=u]n[=i], 6, 41, 49, 65, 92, 93
Alcuin, 103
Alexander the Great, 76
Alexander de Villa Dei, 11, 133
Alexandria, 64, 82
Al-Faz[=a]r[=i], 92
Alfred, 103
Algebra, etymology, 5
Algerian numerals, 68
Algorism, 97
Algorismus, 124, 126, 135
Algorismus cifra, 120
Al-[H.]a[s.][s.][=a]r, 65
`Al[=i] ibn Ab[=i] Bekr, 6
`Al[=i] ibn A[h.]med, 93, 98
Al-Kar[=a]b[=i]s[=i], 93
Al-Khow[=a]razm[=i], 4, 9, 10, 92, 97, 98, 125, 126
Al-Kind[=i], 10, 92
Almagest, 54
Al-Ma[.g]reb[=i], 93
Al-Ma[h.]all[=i], 6
Al-M[=a]m[=u]n, 10, 97
Al-Man[s.][=u]r, 96, 97
Al-Mas`[=u]d[=i], 7, 92
Al-Nad[=i]m, 9
Al-Nasaw[=i], 93, 98
Alphabetic numerals, 39, 40, 43
Al-Q[=a]sim, 92
Al-Qass, 94
Al-Sakh[=a]w[=i], 6
Al-[S.]ardaf[=i], 93
Al-Sijz[=i], 94
Al-S[=u]f[=i], 10, 92
Ambrosoli, 118
A[.n]kapalli, 43
Apices, 87, 117, 118
Arabs, 91-98
Arbuthnot, 141
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Archimedes, 15, 16
Arcus Pictagore, 122
Arjuna, 15
Arnold, E., 15, 102
Ars memorandi, 141
[=A]ryabha[t.]a, 39, 43, 44
Aryan numerals, 19
Aschbach, 134
Ashmole, 134
A['s]oka, 19, 20, 22, 81
A[s.]-[s.]ifr, 57, 58
Astrological numerals, 150
Atharva-Veda, 48, 49, 55
Augustus, 80
Averroes, 113
Avicenna, 58, 74, 113

Babylonian numerals, 28
Babylonian zero, 51
Bacon, R., 131
Bactrian numeral