`ANCIENT` Hindu-Arabic mathematics or number systems

p The Hindu-Arabic Number System

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Imagine yourself in a grocery store , grabbing and taking hold of those precious items you wish to buy . You gathered the nicest things you have thought of , and you approach the counter for check-out . The cashier then carefully takes each item one by one , and by shock finds out that the machine doesn 't work out . So , with all fervor and passion , he starts to manually determine the counting on the fingers the price of

each item , and then writing on a piece of the numerical cost all written entirely in words . And so you wait for almost half a day , waiting on the payment aisle just to let the cashier finish with his ingenious method of counting

Thanks to the current system of counting numbers , people don 't have to consume much time performing calculations using spoken language itself Using the current counting system , the Arabic Numeral System , counting things became easier through the use of separate symbols for each value This minimizes the inconvenience of writing digits in whole words , which hampers manual calculations . Through the use of a glyphic system in counting values , there is a memory span advantage over the use of digit words , as values are only represented with a specialized and standardized set of symbols

Likewise , the use of the Arabic number system over other systems (such as the Roman...