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Listen to native speakers pronounce “arabic numerals” in real conversational contexts with synchronized timestamps and subtitles.
writing that without taking your pen or whatever they used in ancient India off the paper you get that which is the origin of the digits we use today. So even though we call themArabic numerals they actually got to the Arab lands from India. We should call them Hindo-numeric numerals.But the reason why we use Hindo-numeric numerals, why that we use the system that came from India isn't because of this sort of funny little trick, it's because of the number zero.