What are the figures we use in the modern world?

Have you ever thought about the names of the numbers we use? And in vain! First, it is very interesting and exciting. Secondly, the knowledge of scientific facts contributes to the expansion of horizons and erudition. And thirdly, our spiritual world becomes richer! This article will be useful not only for schoolchildren and their parents, but also for students.

Common Misconception

Before you find out what the numbers we use are called, let's first figure out who invented them. In the world of illiterate people, a common error is haunting, because of which it is mistakenly believed that Arab numerals were invented by the Arabs. Mankind has written Roman and Arabic numerals for centuries. But in fact, the modern figures and their record, which we apply, came to us from India, and not from the Arab world. But it is too early to talk about the names of the numbers we use.

Resourceful Indians

About the fifth century in India, they invented the recording of a wide variety of numbers with a selection of dozens. The scientist Aryabhata described the decimal system of calculus in the treatise on astronomy "Aryabhatian." A hundred years later, another Indian scientist and thinker Brahmagupta freely used the achievements of his ancestors in the field of mathematics, including the concept of zero. Other nations, of course, have moved far away from the primitive system of calculus. They could already divide into "one", "two" and "many", but only resourceful Indians guessed to invent a number denoting "nothing" (shunya), that is zero. And we continue to explore the question of how the figures that we use are called.

Merit of the Arabs

Arrangements for themselves Arabs have achieved only because they were able to adopt the Indian number record. Later this form fell into North Africa, Spain, and then to Europe. The origin of each of the nine Arabic numerals is clearly visible if they are written in angular form. The names of the digits indicate the number of angles from which the recorded digit consists.

Modern forms of numbers

The forms that we use in the modern world have appeared as a result of simplifying the recording of Arabic angular figures. Each of us today uses a rounded Arabic number to be written comfortably, easily and quickly.

In our state they appeared thanks to Peter the Great. At the same time, the word "figure" entered the lexical composition of the Russian language. It has an Arabic origin, but in our language came from European languages. But among the Arabs, this lexeme meant "zero", or an empty space.

Conclusion

From our article you learned about the names of the numbers we use. Now you can easily answer this question, as well as tell an amazing story that they were invented not by Arabs, but by Hindus.

The merit of the Arabs is only that they knowingly evaluated all the merits of recording Indian numbers, and they were able to clearly identify each figure. If in the Arabic text we read the numbers, then for sure we will make a mistake. After all, they write from right to left! Roman numerals, according to the Arabs, like the Greek, were inconvenient, since they had very long records. When it was necessary to multiply many-valued numbers, the operation became impossible if the record was performed with the help of Greek or Roman numbering.

For a very long time, Indian figures "roamed" in different countries, they underwent a lot of changes in their outlines, however, the calculus system remains the same after centuries!

Perhaps, many believe that the Arab figures were invented by the Arabs only because the word "figure" itself has Arabic roots.

To date, this is all information. Perhaps archaeologists will make any excavations that shed more light on this intricate story of ancient figures.