In the
Codex Vigilanus of 976 can be found the earliest mention in a western work of
the Arabic numeral system, a development that can lay claim to being perhaps
the greatest of all the great moments in western financial history. Too lofty a claim? Hardly, when you consider what life would be
like without it.
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