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Indian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Hindu–Arabic_numeral_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Hindu–Arabic_nu... Europe most l

by kps 11y ago

Indian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Hindu–Arabic_numeral_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Hindu–Arabic_nu... Europe most likely adopted them via al-Khwarizmi's On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals, naming them ‘Arabic’ after the perceived origin of the author (actually he was Persian) rather than ‘Hindu’ after the title.

sageikosa 11y ago
Zero sort of emerged from accounting serialization difficulties with positional base number systems. When it actually began to be treated as a number, all hell broke loose.