Arabic numerals
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Arabic numerals consist of the number system most commonly used in the world: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc.
The term "Arabic numeral" is a misnomer that originated in 1847. The more accurate term is "Hindu-Arabic numeral", as the origin of the numerals is Hinduism in India between 400 B.C. and A.D. 400. The only connection with Arabs is that they communicated this system to Europe in the A.D. 900s, through Arabian mathematicians. Most Arabs did not use these Indian numerals.[Citation Needed] It was Fibonacci, the Italian mathematician, who was finally successfull in introducing the Arabic numbers to Europe, around 1200 A.D.
Indians first defined the value of zero (0), which is necessary for writing numbers in this way.