"Any phase of the growth of mathematical notation is an interesting study, but the chief educational lesson to be derived is that notation always grows too slowly. Older and inferior forms possess remarkable longevity, and the newer and superior forms appear feeble and backward. We have noted the state of transition in the sixteenth century from the Roman to the Hindu system of characters, the introduction of symbols of operation +, -, and the slow growth towards decimal notation."
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Lambert Lincoln Jackson in: Florian Cajori :A History of Mathematical Notations", p. 228
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