Arabic numerals are the ten digits 0 through 9 used in most of the world today to write numbers. They are a positional decimal system, meaning the value of each digit depends on its place in a number, and together they form numbers of any size. The system originated in India, was transmitted to the Islamic world, and eventually became the global standard for arithmetic and everyday counting. Key points
- Digits: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
- Base ten (decimal) positional notation.
- Widely used in mathematics, science, commerce, and digital technology.
If you’d like, I can provide a brief history of how these numerals spread from India to the Arab world and Europe, or show examples of how the positional notation works with different numbers.
