Looking ahead to the Renaissance years, more academic reviews of the history of numerals start to appear. These studies would show that the Hindu-Arabic system that had become popular in Europe ...

It’s a nice little number pun, but honestly, Roman numerals aren’t good for much — just try doing your taxes with them. By the sixth century A.D. (and possibly even earlier) a much better system, now ...

In a book on arithmetic al-Khwārizmī wrote in about 825 CE, he explains the Hindu–Arabic numbers and how to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, doubling, and halving as ...

The Hindu-Arabic numeral system was developed about 2,000 years ago, reportedly first in India, and then in Mesopotamia — which is where the modern-day countries of Iraq and Syria are located ...

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 ...