The Fascinating History of Arabic Numerals (Modern Day Numbers!)

The history of Arabic Numerals is strange and fascinating—and it was almost forgotten for 300 years! Join Hank for a new episode of SciShow where he unravels the fascinating yarn of how the world came to use so-called Arabic numerals, and replaced Roman numerals.

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Sources for this episode:
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac....

http://www.ms.uky.edu/~carl/ma330/pro...

http://books.google.com/books?id=SpyY...

http://www.wilbourhall.org/index.html...