Arabic numerals in its entry in the "Oxford English Dictionary", which helps to distinguish it from "Arabic numerals" as the Eastern Arabic numerals. Alternative names are Western Arabic numerals, Western numerals, Hindu–Arabic numerals and Unicode calls them digits. The decimal Hindu–Arabic numeral system with zero was developed in India by around AD 700. The development was gradual, spanning several centuries, but the decisive step was probably provided by Brahmagupta's formulation of zero as a number in AD 628. The system was revolutionary by including zero in positional notation, thereby limiting the number of individual digits to ten. It is considered an important
Numerals in Unicode these is a distinct numeral for representing the same abstract number. The semantics of the numerals differ in particular in their composition. Hindu-Arabic digits are positional-value compositions, while the Roman numerals are sign-value and they are additive and subtractive depending on their composition. Grouped by their numerical property as used in a text, Unicode has four values for Numeric Type. First there is the "not a number" type. Then there are decimal-radix numbers, commonly used in Western style decimals (plain 0-9), there are numbers that are not part of a decimal system such as Roman numbers, and decimal numbers in