Arabic Numerals Took Over 600 Years To Spread Across the West

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Western scholars first encountered "Arabic" numerals in the seventh century, making mathematics and accounting much easier. But Roman numerals stubbornly stuck around until the invention of the printing press made them permanently obsolete.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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