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  • creation7758@lemmy.mlto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    5 months ago

    Also, just to add, while it is known as Arabic numerals, it originated from India, so it’s often also known as the Hindu-Arabic numerals. It’s mostly known as Arabic numerals to the west because they came to know the numerology of the system via the Arabs. What makes the numerals is not the symbols, but other characteristics of the system such as the positional notation and the decimal base