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  2. History of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system - Wikipedia

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    The Hindu–Arabic numeral system is a decimal place-value numeral system that uses a zero glyph as in "205". [1]Its glyphs are descended from the Indian Brahmi numerals.The full system emerged by the 8th to 9th centuries, and is first described outside India in Al-Khwarizmi's On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals (ca. 825), and second Al-Kindi's four-volume work On the Use of the Indian ...

  3. Indian numbering system - Wikipedia

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    The Indian numbering system is used in the Indian subcontinent (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka) to express large numbers.The terms lakh or 1,00,000 (one hundred thousand, written as 100,000 in Pakistan, and outside the Indian subcontinent) and crore or 1,00,00,000 [1] (ten million, written as 10,000,000 outside the subcontinent) are the most commonly used terms ...

  4. Hindu–Arabic numeral system - Wikipedia

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    Sometime around 600 CE, a change began in the writing of dates in the Brāhmī-derived scripts of India and Southeast Asia, transforming from an additive system with separate numerals for numbers of different magnitudes to a positional place-value system with a single set of glyphs for 1–9 and a dot for zero, gradually displacing additive expressions of numerals over the following several ...

  5. Devanagari numerals - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The Devanagari numerals are the symbols used to write numbers in the Devanagari script, predominantly used for northern Indian languages. They are used to write decimal numbers, instead of the Western Arabic numerals.

  6. Indian units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    1 Kancha = 5 Siki. 1 Chhataank = 4 Kancha. 1 Chhataank = 5 Bhari. 1 Adh-pav = 2 Chhatank = 1/8 Seer. 1 Pav = 2 Adh-pav = ¼ Seer (Pav means ¼) The unit pav is still used to this date however, it has been modified to "a fourth of a kilogram". 1 Adher = 2 Pav = ½ Seer. In Hindi ½ Seer = Adha (½) Seer, or Adher.

  7. Mobile telephone numbering in India - Wikipedia

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    In India, mobile numbers (including pagers) on GSM, WCDMA, LTE and NR networks start with either 9, 8, 7 or 6.Each telecom circle is allowed to have multiple private operators; earlier it was two private + BSNL/MTNL, subsequently it changed to three private + BSNL/MTNL in GSM; now each telecom circle has all four operators including Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone idea ltd and BSNL/MTNL.

  8. Brahmi numerals - Wikipedia

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    Brahmi numerals are a numeral system attested in the Indian subcontinent from the 3rd century BCE. It is the direct graphic ancestor of the modern Hindu–Arabic numeral system . However, the Brahmi numeral system was conceptually distinct from these later systems, as it was a non- positional decimal system, and did not include zero .

  9. Telephone numbers in India - Wikipedia

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    5. Tata Indicom. 6. Datacom Solutions. 7. For example, a number formatted in the style (020) 3xxx-xxxx represents a fixed-line number in Pune operated by Jio, while (011) 2xxx-xxxx is a fixed-line number in Delhi operated by MTNL, and (07582) 2xx-xxx is a fixed-line number in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh operated by BSNL.