Hindu-Arabic Number System

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Hindu-Arabic Number System In our daily life we regularly use Arabic numerals. The Hindu mathematician invented the Arabic numerals, between the 1st and 4tinh centuries. The Hindu Arabic numerals system is a system that used Decimal, they used ten symbols to represents zero to nine (٠‎ ١‎ ٢‎ ٣‎ ٤‎ ٥‎ ٦‎ ٧‎ ٨‎ ٩) and these digits recur ad infinitum. Compare the Decimal system to binary system, Decimal system will be shorter that binary system. Except these number symbols there are like“-” and “.” to show positive-negative and Integer- fractional. When people write a number from left to right, and the numerical will be smaller and smaller. In Hindu Arabic numbers, there is a number that is very special. It is 0, it was developed independently in India (this has argument), in early Arabic numerals there was no 0, in 320—550 AD. The 0 in the literature in 4th centuries Hindu is just a solid little dot “·”, for a long time the small dot evolved into a small circle “0”. 0 is a very important number, it means nothing or empty on that digit, and it help us a lot on calculations, for example, on subtraction on paper, there will be a trouble to calculate the first column and in the last column. At about 700AD, the rise of the Arab Empire dominated the Middle East and India-Pakistan region. The Arabic people find out that the Hindu number system works much easier than the number system that they were using. In 771AD they found a mathematician to teach them how to use it. Because of the math system that Hindu member use is very simple and easy to use, most of Arabic traders started to use it in their business. After Arabic grasped the knowledge on how to use, they started to spread these Arabic numerals in trading. In Christian Europe, the first mention and representation of Hindu-Arabic numerals is at the book “Codex Vigilanus”. The illuminated compilation of

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