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  2. Hindu–Arabic numeral system - Wikipedia

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    The Hindu-Arabic system is designed for positional notation in a decimal system. In a more developed form, positional notation also uses a decimal marker (at first a mark over the ones digit but now more commonly a decimal point or a decimal comma which separates the ones place from the tenths place), and also a symbol for "these digits recur ad infinitum".

  3. Arabic numerals - Wikipedia

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    They are also called Western Arabic numerals, Western digits, European digits, [1] Ghubār numerals, or HinduArabic numerals [2] due to positional notation (but not these digits) originating in India. The Oxford English Dictionary uses lowercase Arabic numerals while using the fully capitalized term Arabic Numerals for Eastern Arabic ...

  4. Arabic numerals (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    HinduArabic numeral system, a positional base-10 numeral system, nowadays the most common representation of numbers; Decimal, the HinduArabic system expanded to support non-integers; Eastern Arabic numerals (٠,١,٢,٣,٤,٥,٦,٧,٨,٩), symbols used to write decimal in the countries of the Arab east, and in other countries

  5. History of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system - Wikipedia

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    The HinduArabic numeral system is a decimal place-value numeral system that uses a zero glyph as in "205". [1]Its glyphs are descended from the Indian Brahmi numerals.The full system emerged by the 8th to 9th centuries, and is first described outside India in Al-Khwarizmi's On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals (ca. 825), and second Al-Kindi's four-volume work On the Use of the Indian ...

  6. Liber Abaci - Wikipedia

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    Liber Abaci was among the first Western books to describe the HinduArabic numeral system and to use symbols resembling modern "Arabic numerals". By addressing the applications of both commercial tradesmen and mathematicians, it promoted the superiority of the system and the use of these glyphs. [2]

  7. History of ancient numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    Sexagesimal numerals were used in commerce, as well as for astronomical and other calculations. In Arabic numerals, sexagesimal is still used today to count time (second per minute; minutes per hour), and angles .

  8. Modern Arabic mathematical notation - Wikipedia

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    That is identical to the arrangement used by Western texts using Hindu-Arabic numerals even though Arabic script is read from right to left: Indeed, Western texts are written with the ones digit on the right because when the arithmetical manuals were translated from the Arabic, the numerals were treated as figures (like in a Euclidean diagram ...

  9. Principles of Hindu Reckoning - Wikipedia

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    It is the second-oldest book extant in Arabic about Hindu arithmetic using Hindu-Arabic numerals ( ० ۱ ۲ ۳ ۴ ۵ ۶ ۷ ۸ ۹), preceded by Kitab al-Fusul fi al-Hisub al-Hindi by Abul al-Hassan Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Uglidis, written in 952.