I have read that the uptake of Arabic numerals was actually fairly slow and fraught in Europe, but of course can't put my hands on any references. There's a re

I have read that the uptake of Arabic numerals was actually fairly slow and fraught in Europe, but of course can't put my hands on any references. There's a reddit thread [0] that might be some of what I saw, and my wife does paleography work where she runs across books of accounts that are rendered in Roman numerals, because that's how formal accounts were prepared, even if the actual accounting was done by other means. That same reddit thread has link to an "algorists vs abacists " article [1] which purports to back this up, but I can't confirm because the article is paywalled for me. Edit: Moved/fixed links. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/12m0vp/how_and_when_did_the_arabic_numbers_took_over_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/12m0vp/how_a... [1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2686479.pdf?seq=1 https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2686479.pdf?seq=1