history of mathematics

[munawar butt]

How Arabic, Roman & Sanskrit numerals originated?

[dot.hawkes]

http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/romannumera ls/f/romannumerals.htm
http://www.geocities.com/rmlyra/arabic.html
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=n5l RxtQhVG4C&oi=fnd&pg=PP8&sig=TG7y-8jhxMA1Ay1pLx GM44LaDIk&dq=origin+of+sanskrit+numerals&prev= http://scholar.google.com/scholar%3Fq%3Dorigin %2Bof%2Bsanskrit%2Bnumerals%26start%3D10%26hl% 3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

[heathfield]

Gosh, Dot - I'd hate to have had to type out that link in full ! It must count as one of the longest I've seen. ;-)