"It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an bsolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease with which it has lent to all computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions and we shall appreciate the grandeur of this achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity."
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