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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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    The 2, 8, and 9 resemble Arabic numerals more than Eastern Arabic numerals or Indian numerals. Leonardo Fibonacci was a Pisan mathematician who had studied in the Pisan trading colony of Bugia , in what is now Algeria , [ 15 ] and he endeavored to promote the numeral system in Europe with his 1202 book Liber Abaci :

  4. Devanagari numerals - Wikipedia

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    The Devanagari numerals are the symbols used to write numbers in the Devanagari script, predominantly used for northern Indian languages. They are used to write decimal numbers, instead of the Western Arabic numerals .

  5. 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.

  6. Hindustani numerals - Wikipedia

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    For number 0, Modern Standard Hindi is more inclined towards śūnya (a Sanskrit tatsama) and Standard Urdu is more inclined towards sifr (borrowed from Arabic), while the native tadbhava-form is sunnā in Hindustani. Sometimes the ardha-tatsama form śūn is also used (semi-learned borrowing).

  7. Modern Arabic mathematical notation - Wikipedia

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    The symbols "٫" and "٬" may be used as the decimal mark and the thousands separator respectively when writing with Eastern Arabic numerals, e.g. ٣٫١٤١٥٩٢٦٥٣٥٨ 3.14159265358, ١٬٠٠٠٬٠٠٠٬٠٠٠ 1,000,000,000. Negative signs are written to the left of magnitudes, e.g. ٣− −3.

  8. 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

  9. 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 ...