Hindu-Arabic number system

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• Hindu–Arabic numeral system — Numeral systems by culture Hindu Arabic numerals Western Arabic (Hindu numerals) Eastern Arabic Indian family Tamil Burmese Khmer Lao Mongolian Thai East Asian numerals Chinese Japanese Suzhou Korean Vietna …   Wikipedia

• Hindu-Arabic numeral system — The Hindu Arabic numeral system is a positional decimal numeral system first documented in the ninth century. The system is based on ten, originally nine, different glyphs. The symbols (glyphs) used to represent the system are in principle… …   Wikipedia

• History of the Hindu-Arabic numeral system — The Hindu Arabic numeral system is a place value numeral system: the value of a digit depends on the place where it appears; the 2 in 205 is ten times greater than the 2 in 25. It requires a zero to handle the empty powers of ten (as in 205 ). [… …   Wikipedia

• number system — Method of writing numerals to represent numbers. The use of zero as a placeholder was the greatest advance in number systems. The most common system is the decimal system, in which 10 symbols (the Hindu Arabic numerals) denote multiples of powers …   Universalium

• Hindu-Arabic numerals — /hin dooh ar euh bik/. See Arabic numerals. * * * Set of 10 symbols 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0 that represent numbers in the decimal number system. They originated in India in the 6th or 7th century and were introduced to Europe through Arab… …   Universalium

• decimal number system — ▪ mathematics also called  Hindu Arabic, or Arabic, number system        in mathematics, positional numeral system employing 10 as the base and requiring 10 different numerals, the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. It also requires a dot… …   Universalium

• Arabic numerals — The arabic numerals (often capitalized) are the ten digits (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), which along with the system by which a sequence (e.g. 406 ) was read as a number were originally defined by Indian mathematicians, later modified and… …   Wikipedia

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• Arabic alphabet — Infobox Writing system name=Arabic abjad type=Abjad languages= Arabic, Persian, Kurdish, Baloch, Urdu, Pashto, Sindhi, Malay (limited usage) and others. time=400 CE to the present fam1=Proto Canaanite fam2=Phoenician fam3=Aramaic fam4=Nabataean… …   Wikipedia

• number theory — Math. the study of integers and their relation to one another. Also called theory of numbers. [1910 15] * * * Branch of mathematics concerned with properties of and relations among integers. It is a popular subject among amateur mathematicians… …   Universalium

• 0 (number) — Zero redirects here. For other uses, see Zero (disambiguation). 0 −1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 …   Wikipedia