History Of The Hindu–Arabic Numeral System
The Hindu-Arabic numeral system is a decimal place-value numeral system that uses a zero glyph as in "205".
Its glyphs are descended from the Indian Brahmi numerals. The full system emerged by the 8th to 9th centuries, and is first described in Al-Khwarizmi's On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals (ca. 825), and Al-Kindi's four volume work On the Use of the Indian Numerals (ca. 830). Today the name Hindu-Arabic numerals is usually used.
Evidence of early use of a zero glyph may be present in Bakhshali manuscript, a text of uncertain date, possibly a copy of a text composed as early as the 2nd century BC.
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