origin of numbers

ok, we use it daily...but have you ever thought of it?

as  a matter of fact nowdays being referred as 'arabic numeral system'...it was said descended from the hindu-arab numeral system...not from the european.

Arabic numerals, Hindu-Arabic numerals^[1][2] , Indo-Arabic numerals^[3], Hindu numerals^[4][1], European numerals or Western numerals are the ten digits (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9). They are descended from the Hindu-Arabic numeral system

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals