Arabic numerals
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Arabic numerals, also called Hindu-Arabic or Indo-Arabic numerals, are the ten digits: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, based on the Hindu–Arabic numeral system, the most common system for the symbolic representation of numbers in the world today. In this system, a sequence of digits such as "975" is read as a single number, using the position of the digit in the sequence to interpret its value. The symbol for zero is the key for the effectiveness of the system, which was developed by ancient mathematicians in the Indian Subcontinent around AD 500.
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See also
- Abjad numerals
- Chinese numerals
- Counting rods – decimal positional numeral system with zero
- Decimal
- Hindu-Arabic numeral system
- Japanese numerals
- Maya numerals
- Numeral system
- Numerical digit
- Positional numeral system
- Regional variations in modern handwritten Arabic numerals
- Roman numerals
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