1 and on to 9 now in general use are derived from Indian albeit Hindu numerals. The name Arabic is used because Western Europeans learned about the system from Arabic writers. Period.

and the modern day Arabic numeral system (also known as the Hindu-Arabic numeral system). Numerals from the Bakhshali manuscript, which was discovered by Augustus Hoernle in 1887 and believed to ...

Before the 13th century Europeans used Roman numerals to do arithmetic. Leonardo of Pisa, better known today as Fibonacci, is largely responsible for the adoption of the Hindu–Arabic numeral ...

EVIDENCE is sometimes adduced to indicate that the Hindu-Arabic numerals, or closely allied forms of them, were known in western Europe before this knowledge could have passed through Muslim Spain.

Here’s something Sr. Mary Agatha, your 8th-grade math teacher, never taught you. Before Hindu-Arabic numerals were widespread throughout Christendom, the Cistercian monks throughout Europe in ...

Jerry Brown signed into law a requirement that students learn Arabic numerals. But California students, like others around the world, already use the Hindu-Arabic numeral system. Brown's deputy ...

Q: Has California’s governor ordered public schools to use “ARABIC” numerals? A: No. That claim originated on a website that describes itself as satirical. Numbers from zero to nine — 0, 1 ...

I suppose binary can be said to be inspired by Hindu-Arabic numerals, in that it's a place-value notation; is that it? Also, does it seem odd to think of electrical states as "numerals"?

There, Arabian tutors introduced the young Leonardo to the Hindu-Arabic numeral system. The boy quickly grasped how much more ...