"The miraculous powers of modern calculation are due to three inventions : the Arabic Notation, Decimal Fractions and Logarithms."
— Florian Cajori

January 1, 1970

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p. 161; Cited in: Moritz (1914, 263); Arithmetics

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p. 161; Cited in: Moritz (1914, 263); Arithmetics