The Hindu–Arabic numeral system 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 ...

centuries before the adoption of the written Hindu-Arabic numeral system. When the Hindu-Arabic number system was widely accepted, abaci were adapted to use place-value counting, a system in which ...

What is interesting though is that Leonardo Fibonacci (real name Leonardo of Pisa) did not actually discover the sequence.

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Neuroscience helps show why the concept of zero took (takes!) so long to take hold, both for deep thinkers and for children's developing minds.