Ancient Indian wisdom-DECIMAL SYSTEM
DECIMAL SYSTEM
The discovery of zero and use of numerals has been the gift of India to the modern world. Even Bertrand Russell commented that we should stop the practice of calling them 'Arabic Numerals' as they are truly Hindu numerals. They were no doubt introduced to the European world as Arabic numerals, the Arabs having borrowed them from India.
The decimal system was in regular use among Indian astronomers in ancient India.
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