ABSTRACT
By the year 800 A.D. the Arabs were using a ten-symbol positional system of numbers which included the special symbol for 0. This system (later called the Hindu-Arabic or Arabic numerals) was introduced into Europe during the 8th century, probably through Spain. Pope Sylvester II, who had studied the Arabic numbers in Spain, was the first European scholar to support them. The Latin title of the first book on the subject of “Indian numbers” is Liber Algorismi de Numero Indorum. The author is the Arab mathematician al-Khowarizmi. The Hindu-Arabic numerals have been adopted by practically all the nations and cultures of the world.
