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  2. 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.

  3. Bhutasamkhya system - Wikipedia

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    Bhutasamkhya system. The Bhūtasaṃkhyā system is a method of recording numbers in Sanskrit using common nouns having connotations of numerical values. The method was introduced already in astronomical texts in antiquity, but it was expanded and developed during the medieval period. [1][2][3] A kind of rebus system, bhūtasaṃkhyā has also ...

  4. Devanagari - Wikipedia

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    Devanāgarī is formed by the addition of the word deva (देव) to the word nāgarī (नागरी). Nāgarī is an adjective derived from nagara (नगर), a Sanskrit word meaning "town" or "city," and literally means "urban" or "urbane". [22] The word Nāgarī (implicitly modifying lipi, "script") was used on its own to refer to a ...

  5. Indian numbering system - Wikipedia

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    The Indian numbering system corresponds to the Western system for the zeroth through fourth powers of ten: one (10 0), ten (10 1), one hundred (10 2), one thousand (10 3), and ten thousand (10 4). For higher powers of ten, the names no longer correspond. In the ancient Indian system still in use in regional languages of India, there are words ...

  6. Āryabhaṭa numeration - Wikipedia

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    e. Āryabhaṭa numeration is an alphasyllabic numeral system based on Sanskrit phonemes. It was introduced in the early 6th century in India by Āryabhaṭa, in the first chapter titled Gītika Padam of his Aryabhatiya. It attributes a numerical value to each syllable of the form consonant+vowel possible in Sanskrit phonology, from ka = 1 up ...

  7. Hindu–Arabic numeral system - Wikipedia

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    The Hindu–Arabic numeral system (also known as the Indo-Arabic numeral system, [1] Hindu numeral system, Arabic numeral system) [2][note 1] is a positional base ten numeral system for representing integers; its extension to non-integers is the decimal numeral system, which is presently the most common numeral system.

  8. History of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    The Ancient Greeks used a system based on the myriad, that is, ten thousand, and their largest named number was a myriad myriad, or one hundred million. In The Sand Reckoner, Archimedes (c. 287–212 BC) devised a system of naming large numbers reaching up to. essentially by naming powers of a myriad myriad. This largest number appears because ...

  9. Sahasra - Wikipedia

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    Imperial / US units. 1000. 1000. A Sahasra (Sanskrit: सहस्र) is a Vedic measure of Count data, which was chiefly used in ancient as well as medieval India. A Sahasra means 1k, i.e. 1000 count data [1][2] [3]