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
Thai numerals oval 0 (number) when using Arabic numerals, but a small circle when using traditional numerals, and also means "centre" in other contexts. It is from Sanskrit "śūnya", as are the (context-driven) alternate names for numbers one to four given below; but not the counting 1 (number). Thai names for "N" +1 and the regular digits 2 through 9 as shown in the table, below, resemble those in Chinese varieties (e.g., Cantonese and Min Nan) as spoken in Southern China, the homeland of the overseas chinese living in South East Asia . In fact, the etymology of Thai numerals 2, 3,