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  2. Hindu–Arabic numeral system - Wikipedia

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    The "Western Arabic" numerals as they were in common use in Europe since the Baroque period have secondarily found worldwide use together with the Latin alphabet, and even significantly beyond the contemporary spread of the Latin alphabet, intruding into the writing systems in regions where other variants of the HinduArabic numerals had been ...

  3. 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]

  4. 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 ...

  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. Timeline of numerals and arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    12th century — Indian numerals have been modified by Persian mathematicians al-Khwārizmī to form the modern Arabic numerals (used universally in the modern world.) 12th century — the Arabic numerals reach Europe through the Arabs. 1202 — Leonardo Fibonacci demonstrates the utility of HinduArabic numeral system in his Book of the Abacus.

  7. Al-Khwarizmi - Wikipedia

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    On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals, written about 820, was principally responsible for spreading the HinduArabic numeral system throughout the Middle East and Europe. When the work was translated into Latin in the 12th century as Algoritmi de numero Indorum (Al-Khwarizmi on the Hindu art of reckoning), the term "algorithm" was introduced ...

  8. Hindi numeral watch enters the market. And it was created by ...

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    The Hindi numeral system can be traced back 5,000 years to the areas of present-day Pakistan and India. In the Triangle area, South Asians are a growing demographic, especially in western Wake County.

  9. History of mathematical notation - Wikipedia

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    The HinduArabic numeral system and the rules for the use of its operations, in use throughout the world today, likely evolved over the course of the first millennium AD in India and was transmitted to the west via Islamic mathematics. [37] [38] A page from al-Khwārizmī's Algebra. Despite their name, Arabic numerals have roots in