Decimal numbers along with zero ٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩ were invented in India. The arabs used them until early days of Islam. Then due to fraud issues with the zero, being

Decimal numbers along with zero ٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩ were invented in India. The arabs used them until early days of Islam. Then due to fraud issues with the zero, being just a dot that can easily be overwritten to anything else, the arabs set to invent their own symbols. The new symbol is angles based, zero being a circle has no angles, 1 has a single angle and so on ... The symbols 0123456789 is yet to be adopted by many Arab countries because it was invented post writings of Quran, where it uses the original Hindi symbols.