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Also Known As Arabic numeral

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  • Florences city council banned using zero in 1298, afraid of the ease of altering Hindu-Arabic numerals (as opposed to Roman numerals).
  • The modern symbol for zero may have begun as a dot.
  • The Italian mathematician Fibonacci popularized the use of Hindu-Arabic numerals in Europe in the early 13th century.

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Fibonacci
Italian mathematician
Al-Khwārizmī
al-Khwārizmī
Muslim mathematician