hindu-arabic

How many people are fast at computing fifth roots without recourse to computational tools such as Hindu-Arabic numerals?

Amusingly the Wikipedia page for Hindu-Arabic numeral system claims that their RTL scripts switch to LTR for numbers.

The comparison can be made; almost all positive integers can't practically be represented in hindu-arabic because they are too large.

There he is trying to convince the readers to shift to this Hindu-Arabic system he had picked up from the Arabs.

They're called Hindu-Arabic numerals [1] for a reason, and in Arabic the equivalent [2] are called Indian numbers (أَرْقَام هِنْدِيَّة) [3]!

Perhaps at least one person was an Indian-American who is annoyed that the numeral system isn't commonly known as Hindu or at least Hindu-Arabic numerals, for nationalist reasons.

How many people know how to multiply two numbers expressed in Roman numeral format without reference to an algorism (not a typo!) or other methods based on Hindu-Arabic numerals?

Hindu-Arabic would be little more correct.

That's kind of like saying that Math before we humanity invented Hindu-Arabic numerals was overengineered and why didn't they just use proper positional notation, which are far simpler.

> When we (humans using Hindu-Arabic numerals) represent numbers, we write the most significant value first, and continue in descending order.

>...the Hindu-Arabic numerals aren’t just an extraordinary piece of design.

At first students would convert their assigned math problems into Kaktovik numerals to do calculations, but middle school math classes in Kaktovik began teaching the numerals in equal measure with their Hindu-Arabic counterparts in 1997.

For example: "Using the Hindu-Arabic numeral system instead of the Roman numeral system is the most dystopian thing I've heard about in a while.

This makes the “0” in “605” the oldest zero ever found of our base-10, “Hindu-Arabic” number system.

What we consider "natural" now is not what was originally considered "natural" during the early centuries of the Hindu-Arabic numerals' journey.

> What we consider "natural" now is not what was originally considered "natural" during the early centuries of the Hindu-Arabic numerals' journey.