What is the Arabic Number system?

The Hindu-Arabic numeral system or Indo-Arabic numeral system is a positional decimal numeral system, and is the most common system for the symbolic representation of numbers in the world. It was invented between the 1st and 4th centuries by Indian mathematicians.

So when the European mathematicians discovered the Hindu-Arabic numeral system, they soon saw the advantage of it over the Roman numerals ... Mathematics is much easier to do with Arabic numerals than Roman. Arabic numeral have a symbol for every digit in base ten.

Arabic numerals are the ten digits: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. The term often implies a decimal number written using these digits, which is the most common system for the symbolic representation of numbers in the world today, and is also called Hindu-Arabic numerals.