Arabic numerals Libya to Morocco. Arabs, on the other hand, call the base-10 system (not just these digits) "Hindu numerals", referring to their origin in India. This is not to be confused with what the Arabs call the "Hindi numerals", namely the Eastern Arabic numerals ( - - - - - - - - - ) used in the Middle East, or any of the numerals currently used in Indian languages (e.g. Devanagari: ). The European acceptance of the numerals was accelerated by the invention of the printing press, and they became widely known during the 15th century. Early evidence of their
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