Quote: Sanskrit possessed names for all powers of ten up to 10^8, and by 300 CE, 10^17; used the names to mark position

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Since around the time of the Vedas, the … 10^8 … Later, this was extended to 10^12 … When the powers of ten were named up … around 300 CE, it is likely that this … [p. 429] Instead of naming the numbers in groups … them taking the powers of ten and the … to express a given number, they only had … units that was immediately below it and the … To put it plainly, the Sanskrit numeral system …   Google-1   Google-2

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