The first Arabic numerals in a Western manuscript, AD 976. From <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Vigilanus" class="extiw" title="en:Codex Vigilanus">Codex Vigilanus</a></i>. The text reads as follows: <i>Scire debemus in Indos subtilissimum ingenium habere. Et ceteras gentes eis in arithmetica et geometrica. Et ceteris liberalibus disciplinis concedere. Et hoc manifestum est in nobem figuris quibus designant unumquemque gradum. Cuiuslibet gradus quarum hec sunt forma. 987654321</i>
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