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The Arabic numerals are called Arabic because the Europeans got them from North African Arabs. They are different to the Indian numerals.
by csomar 2y ago
The Arabic numerals are called Arabic because the Europeans got them from North African Arabs. They are different to the Indian numerals.
- srean 2y ago> They are different to the Indian numerals. Not in any mathematically significant way, except for the big endian little endian swap. In Indian system the units is specified first, then the 10s then the hundreds and so on. Arabs took the same system but they wrote right to left. That's why we write the numbers the way we do.