Kerala General Education Minister V. Sivankutty on Wednesday slammed the reported decision of the Lakshadweep administration to remove Arabic and Mahal languages from the school curriculum of the ...

Where Do Arabic Numbers Come From? The numbers we use daily, called "Arabic numerals," actually originated in ancient India around the 6th century CE, including the groundbreaking concept of zero.

Like Roman numerals, their system borrowed letters; like the Arabic numerals we still use, it only needed one symbol for each decimal place. In the 6th century BCE, the Greek alphabet used 24 letters.