[Footnote 10: According to a new, though probable, notion,
maintained by M de Villoison, (Anecdota Graeca, tom. ii. p.
152 - 157,) our ciphers are not of Indian or Arabic
invention. They were used by the Greek and Latin
arithmeticians long before the age of Boethius. After the
extinction of science in the West, they were adopted by the
Arabic versions from the original Mss., and restored to the
Latins about the xith century. Note: Compare, on the
Introduction of the Arabic numerals, Hallam's Introduction
to the Literature of Europe, p. 150, note, and the authors
quoted therein. - M.]