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  2. Hindustani numerals - Wikipedia

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    Like many Indo-Aryan languages, Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) has a decimal numeral system that is contracted to the extent that nearly every number 1–99 is irregular, and needs to be memorized as a separate numeral. [1]

  3. Devanagari numerals - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  4. Hindu–Arabic numeral system - Wikipedia

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    The Hindu–Arabic system is designed for positional notation in a decimal system. In a more developed form, positional notation also uses a decimal marker (at first a mark over the ones digit but now more commonly a decimal point or a decimal comma which separates the ones place from the tenths place), and also a symbol for "these digits recur ad infinitum".

  5. Indian numbering system - Wikipedia

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    The Indian numbering system is used in Indian English and the Indian subcontinent to express large numbers. Commonly used quantities include lakh (one hundred thousand) and crore (ten million) – written as 1,00,000 and 1,00,00,000 respectively in some locales. [1]

  6. Indian units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    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 1 Ser = 2 Adher = 4 Pav = 16 Chattank = 80 Tola = 933.1 grams 1 Savaser = 1 Ser + 1 Pav (1¼ Seer)

  7. Melakarta - Wikipedia

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    The name of each of the 12 chakras suggest their ordinal number as well. [1] [4] Indu stands for the moon, of which we have only one – hence it is the first chakra. NÄ“tra means eyes, of which we have two – hence it is the second. Agni is the third chakra it indicates three kinds of Agni (Dakshina, Ahavaniyam and gArhapatyam).

  8. 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 ...

  9. 11 (number) - Wikipedia

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    11 is a prime number, and a super-prime. 11 forms a twin prime with 13, [6] and sexy pair with 5 and 17. 11 is also the first prime exponent that does not yield a Mersenne prime. 11 is also a Gaussian prime [7] and an Eisenstein prime. [8] 11 is part of a pair of Brown numbers. Only three such pairs of numbers are known.