Arabic numerals different values, but also had the lower 4 bits equal to the digit value. Arabic numerals Arabic numerals, also called Hindu–Arabic numerals, are the ten digits: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; or numerals written using them in the Hindu–Arabic numeral system (where the position of a digit indicates the power of 10 to multiply it by). It is the most common system for the symbolic representation of numbers in the world today. The Hindu-Arabic numeral system was developed by Indian mathematicians around AD 500 using quite different forms of the numerals. From India, the system
Sinhala numerals have a zero and they also did not have zero concept holder. They included separate symbols for 10, 40, 50, 100, 1000. These numerals were also regarded as "Lith Lakunu" or ephemeris numbers by W. A. De Silva in his "Catalogue of Palm leaf manuscripts in the library of Colombo Museum". This set of numerals was known as "Sinhala illakkam" or Sinhala archaic numerals. Sinhala numerals or "Sinhala illakkam" were used in the Kandyan convention which was signed between Kandyan Chieftains and the British governor, Robert Brownrig, in 1815. Eleven clauses were numbered in Arabic numerals in the English part