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Moreover, they acquired numerals from India (Hindu) and possibly China and made their use widespread. Mohammad Bin Ahmed in the tenth century invented the concept of zero or sifr. Thus replacing the cumbersome Roman numerals and creating a revolution in mathematics (Badawi, 2002). This led to advances in the prediction of the movement of the planets and advances in the fields of astronomy and geography.

Muslim mathematics had inherited both the Babylonian sexagecimal system and the Indian (Hindu) decimal system, and this provided the basis for numerical techniques in mathematic (Folkerts, 2001; Rajagopal, 1993). Muslims built mathematical models using the decimal system, expressing all numbers by…