In April 2016, a story popped up on a hoax news web site reporting that former Alaska governor (and John McCain's running mate in the 2008 Presidential race) Sarah Palin took to Facebook to demand a ...

India invented Zero - and the numbers we use daily. Why are we still calling them Arabic numerals? In a stirring and historically grounded conversation with NDTV, Professor Manjul Bhargava, one of the ...

SACRAMENTO - There is no law in California requiring students to use Arabic numbers in schools - because they already do. Arabic numerals are what Europeans and Americans use: The 10-digit system. A ...

EVIDENCE is sometimes adduced to indicate that the Hindu-Arabic numerals, or closely allied forms of them, were known in western Europe before this knowledge could have passed through Muslim Spain.