Assertion: arabic numeral | /r/HasProperty | well-known
Facets:
value: to several scholars
type: OTHER
value: to many merchants of christian europe
type: OTHER
value: early in the middle ages
type: TEMPORAL
value: by the eleventh century
type: TEMPORAL
value: to academic circles
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: There is little doubt that “Arabic” numerals were well-known to academic circles by the eleventh century; the introduction of the new numeration system to bookkeeping seems to have occurred primarily in the late fifteenth century.
text: That they were more or less known early in the Middle Ages, certainly to many merchants of Christian Europe, and probably to several scholars, but without the zero, is hardly to be doubted.