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Why did it take many centuries after its introduction for the decimal place value system to become the system of numeration universally used in the islamic world?

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The system did not catch on because it produced quite unpronounceable phrases, but it might have driven home the principle of positional number system (called dasa-gunottara, exponents of 10) to later mathematicians. A more elegant katapayadi scheme was devised in later centuries

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