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单词 arabic numeral
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Arabic numeral
c. Designating the system of numerals written 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.; of or relating to this system. Chiefly in Arabic numeral. Contrasted with Roman adj.1 4b.Arabic numerals reached western Europe through Arabia by c1200, but probably originated in India.
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1756 Gentleman's Mag. May 239/1 The learned are not quite agreed when the Arabic numerals were first brought into use in this nation.
1798 C. Hutton Course Math. I. 4 The Numbers in Arithmetic are expressed by the..ten digits, or Arabic numeral figures.
1846 Ecclesiastic 1 332 It looks respectable and Review-like to see those nice little Arabic numbers.
1888 W. W. R. Ball Hist. Math. x. 160 It [sc. the Liber abbaci] had a wide circulation and practically introduced the use of the Arabic numerals into Christian Europe.
1928 Science 10 Feb. 142/1 The advent of the Arabic system, with its decimal point and with zero as a ‘place-holder’, marked a new era for the natural sciences as well as for mathematics.
1962 E. Bruton Dict. Clocks & Watches (1963) 13 Crusaders found Arabic numbers much more convenient than Roman.
1998 S. Budiansky If Lion could Talk iv. 98 Apes who have been trained to correctly identify the number of objects in a set by picking from a series of buttons or cards labeled with Arabic numerals.
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