No, it was developed much later.
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every civilization had its own number system . at present using base number system with base 10 is discovered in India . not exactily discovered it was developed there , it was also used and developed in china . the base 10 number system is actually used only in India and china after it Arabic world learnt from India . where European got that . European call that as Arabic numeral system , Arabic people call as Indian numeral system
The decimal system developed in Arabic culture, from the Middle East. It was not created in one country specifically.
"Arabic" is a misnomer - elements of the system were imported from an earlier *Indian* system of numerals. I suggest you do some research to get a concise answer, as the whole topic is complicated, and you don't show how much info you need here.
Gupta mathematicians developed the concept of zero in the use of math, and also developed the decimal system based on the number 10. They also created a number writing system that was later adopted by the Islamic Empire. This system became known as Arabic Numerals, but is really a Gupta achievement.
Yes the numeracy system we use today is the Hindu-Arabic numeral system which replaced the Roman numeral system during the Middle Ages