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Quote: India has a place-value system of word numerals; 1 is anything markedly unique, e.g., the moon, the earth; 0 is denoted by words meaning void, sky, complete; still used today
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[Word numerals:] A system of expressing numbers by means … early centuries of the Christian era. … Thus the number one may be denoted by … denoted by any pair, e.g., the eyes, the … complete, etc. [p. 54] The system is used in … manuscripts. … They are used even upto the present day, … Google-1 Google-2
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