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What is the significance of the ancient Indian numeral system?

  1. The system is still being used today.

  2. The symbols represent the numbers 1 to 10,000.

  3. Egyptian traders spread the system to other lands.

  4. The system used Arabic symbols to represent numbers.
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Explanation

The ancient Indian numeral system, which introduced the base-10 positional notation and the concept of zero, is the direct ancestor of the modern Hindu-Arabic numeral system used worldwide today. It was spread to Europe by Arab traders, not Egyptian traders.

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