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  2. Hindustani numerals - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani numerals. 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] Numbers from 100 up are more regular. There are numerals for 100, sau; 1,000, hazār; and successive ...

  3. Hindu–Arabic numeral system - Wikipedia

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    Numeral systems. 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.

  4. 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 .

  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 ...

  6. List of languages by number of native speakers in India ...

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    India has a Greenberg's diversity index of 0.914—i.e. two people selected at random from the country will have different native languages in 91.4% of cases. [11] As per the 2011 Census of India, languages by highest number of speakers are as follows: Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu, Kannada, Odia, Malayalam.

  7. 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".. 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 ...

  8. Devanagari (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    Devanagari is a Unicode block containing characters for writing languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Bodo, Maithili, Sindhi, Nepali, and Sanskrit, among others. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0900..U+0954 were a direct copy of the characters A0-F4 from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu ...

  9. Telephone numbers in India - Wikipedia

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    Airtel. 4. MTS / HFCL. 5. Tata Indicom. 6. Datacom Solutions. 7. For example, a number formatted in the style (020) 3xxx-xxxx represents a fixed-line number in Pune operated by Jio, while (011) 2xxx-xxxx is a fixed-line number in Delhi operated by MTNL, and (07582) 2xx-xxx is a fixed-line number in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh operated by BSNL.