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  2. Hindu–Arabic numeral system - Wikipedia

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    The HinduArabic 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. Devanagari numerals - Wikipedia

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    A comparison of Sanskrit and Eastern Arabic numerals Devanagari digits shapes may vary depending on geographical area or epoch. Some of the variants are also seen in older Sanskrit literature.

  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. 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

  7. Eastern Arabic numerals - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern Arabic numerals, also called Indo-Arabic numerals, are the symbols used to represent numerical digits in conjunction with the Arabic alphabet in the countries of the Mashriq (the east of the Arab world), the Arabian Peninsula, and its variant in other countries that use the Persian numerals on the Iranian plateau and in Asia.

  8. 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]

  9. Principles of Hindu Reckoning - Wikipedia

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    Principles of Hindu Reckoning was one of the foreign sources for Hindu Reckoning in the 10th and 11th century in India. It was translated into English by Martin Levey and Marvin Petruck in 1963 from the only extant Arabic manuscript at that time: Istanbul, Aya Sophya Library, MS 4857 and a Hebrew translation and commentary by Shālôm ben ...