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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".
They are also called Western Arabic numerals, Western digits, European digits, [1] Ghubār numerals, or Hindu–Arabic 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 ...
A map of Indo-Aryan languages using their respective Brahmic family scripts (except dark blue colored Khowar, Pashai, Kohistani, and Urdu, not marked here, which use Arabic-derived scripts). Gupta , 4th century
The Brahmi script is mentioned in the ancient Indian texts of the three major Dharmic religions: Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism, as well as their Chinese translations. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] For example, the 10th chapter of the Lalitavistara Sūtra (c. 200–300 CE), [ 34 ] titled the Lipisala samdarshana parivarta, lists 64 lipi (scripts), with the ...
Modern Devanagari Western Arabic Words for the cardinal number Sanskrit (wordstem) Hindi Marathi Nepali; ०: 0: शून्य (śūnya)शून्य (śūny)शून्य (śūnya)
Gurmukhī has its own set of digits, which function exactly as in other versions of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system. These are used extensively in older texts. In modern contexts, they are sometimes replaced by standard Western Arabic numerals. [61]
Indians used the Hindu–Arabic numeral system for numbering, traditionally written in increasing place values from left to right. This is as per the rule "अङ्कानां वामतो गतिः" which means numbers go from right to left.
According to some scholars, the Hindu–Arabic number system originated in Chinese rod numeral system, also a positional decimal number representation. because I explained above, that's what the scholar have stated: "the Hindu-Arabic system could only have originated from the rod numeral system". M.Bitton 16:12, 26 February 2024 (UTC)