Show HISTORY OF NINE DIGITS Arabic ralie U ed tt In iii Europe in hi Tu r Century It I has ben been a n matter for discussion when Arabic able numerals first displaced the lie more cumbersome Roman system stem in Europe There are arc t few fw examples example of Arabic figures in Inscriptions that ti can be regard i as as genuine r to fo lie fe found in Viii Great Britain u sixteenth I. I tenth n century l though h In Germany some are alu ton tou found mimI 11 h da t ta llie t 1 teen neon th lii c nir t tn Ob be th the t. t t date of or a a. L wi with h I Arabic At-abic but Sir Jun Picton say that there inert twe Is s an nit t In itt the record oli ollice of the lie year yeni 1 which i is indor indorsed d with wih t that tat date b by an Italian merchant V In lii th the Cambridge university library there ther is a Latin version of a zt t trtat treatise e eon on the tate dated l 1276 in which the Arable Arabic numerals ai are freely used usell But lut Mr r. r Axon Ason writing jn In mi the tue Antiquary 3 mentions some still earlier examples Pope PIt leo Let XIII XII published cd a iu illustrating 1 ng t the he Irti artistic collections c- c ions of papal palace in ill il which the Hie theatt lons date dale att 1 17 ti appears on oil on th the sl tI plate anti and in iii the tho o of if the 1110 Iu eo Munich libl r 1 is a a. a Iu Chronicle of or which lm is otc nI described Liel Li- Li ed el II as aR the hO oldest t MS containing Arabic AI numerals and amid n as I being Jn written between lh lie tho years year 1167 and 1111 1 17 1174 The Tho ho Vatican or I Ivory of tiC of Hj 1247 thc Uw Cambri ge 1 MS M. of I G rind nd the neg- neg of 11 1 q there here therefore the lie earliest ex examples ex- ex considered fore be hue cn earlest amples Arabic s numerals b beyond dispute in Europe of or the lie u use e of oe |