WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Origins. The Hindu–Arabic or Indo–Arabic numerals were invented by mathematicians in India. Persian and Arabic mathematicians called them “Hindu numerals". Later they came to be called “Arabic numerals” in Europe because they were introduced to the West by Arab merchants.

Detailed explanation-2: -The name refers to the arabic root related to dust since the forms of the numerals were easy to erase during intermediate accounting and scientific calculations on a pre-dusted tablet. Arabic numerals were introduced to Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries via scientific texts imported from Andalusia (Al Andalus).

Detailed explanation-3: -These numerals were adopted by the Arabs, most likely in the eighth century during Islamic incursions into the northern part of India.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Evolution of a System Our own number system, composed of the ten symbols 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 is called the Hindu-Arabic system. This is a base-ten (decimal) system since place values increase by powers of ten.

Detailed explanation-5: -Arabic numerals were invented in India at around 500 AD. The numerical system was taken over by Baghdad Arab mathematicians who then spread them further west, where the numbers were modified. Arabic numerals as we know them in their present form were developed in North Africa.