"[T]here is a possibility that some of the works ascribed to Sened ibn 'Alī are really works of Al-KhowarazmI, whose name immediately precedes his."
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David Eugene Smith & , The Hindu-Arabic Numerals (1911) Ch. I. Early Ideas of Their Origin, p. 10.
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