- From: Behnam Esfahbod ✅ via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 11:33:51 +0000
- To: public-i18n-archive@w3.org
@khaledhosny, that last paper on the roots of the system, yes. But, "Western Arabic Numerals" are very well know and documented. I have tracked it back to *A History of Mathematics* (Florian Cajori, 1894). One problem is that these historical digits are not encoded yet, and that's why I'm writing a proposal for it at the moment. Here, I'm not suggesting that we get into the details of the "Western Arabic Numerals", specially not getting into how these numerals look like exactly and how they were emerged/developed. But, there's clear consensus and enough evidence that European numerals are emerged from "Western Arabic Numerals", which explains many things and helps the audience understand the relation between the numerals and the scripts. -- GitHub Notification of comment by behnam Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/alreq/issues/131#issuecomment-316036944 using your GitHub account
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