Sentence examples for western numerals from inspiring English sources
Several different claims, each having a certain amount of justification, have been made with respect to the origin of modern Western numerals, commonly spoken of as Arabic but preferably as Hindu-Arabic.
It is not improbable that the intercourse among traders served to carry such symbols from country to country, so that modern Western numerals may be a conglomeration from different sources.
He imagined the design in two versions, a Japanese one with Kanji ideograms and a Western one, with Roman numerals showing time over 24 hours.
In most Western card games, the numeral 1 is designated ace and marked A accordingly.
In order to promote the game in the West, he wrote a modified set of rules, gave English titles to the tiles, and added index letters and numerals familiar to Western card players.
One study, for example, has shown how the Chinese Chu Shih-chieh triangle anticipated by more than three centuries the highly similar arrangement of numerals by Pascal that holds sway in many Western teachings of probability theory.
Until Europeans adopted Arabic numerals in the Middle Ages, the concept of nothing, or none, had no numerical representation in the Western world.
Al-Khwārizmī's work on arithmetic was responsible for introducing the Arabic numerals, based on the Hindu-Arabic numeral system developed in Indian mathematics, to the Western world.
See numerals and numeral systems.
Mix of numerals and letters.
