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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. Arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    Positional numeral systems have a radix that acts as a multiplicand of the different positions. For each subsequent position, the radix is raised to a higher power. In the common decimal system, also called the HinduArabic numeral system, the radix is 10.

  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. 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 ...

  7. 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]

  8. 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.

  9. List of letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering

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    Latin and Greek letters are used in mathematics, science, engineering, and other areas where mathematical notation is used as symbols for constants, special functions, and also conventionally for variables representing certain quantities.