Why are our numbers called Arabic?

Your implied suspicions are well founded. Hindu mathematicians in India invented the so-called Arabic numbers at least 1,700 years ago. The Arabs played an essential part in passing the number system to us. Their own number system also stems from the Hindu figures. Our “Arabic” numbers and the original Hindu symbols. I’ve also included the Arab symbol for “2” for comparison. [Adapted from Wikipedia]By about 1500 years ago, the Arabs had a translation into Arabic of a Hindu text describing the nine-number system.

They are called Arabic because we got them from the Ottoman Empire (well, it was something else back then). The Arab world used a different numerical system than the Christian world. The Christian world used Roman numbers (I, II, III) for a long time. Math sucked then. Smart people noticed that the Arab world was ahead in math abilities because they had a simpler system and they had invented something called the ZERO. This made a great place holder. If not for ZERO and the Arabic system, the Western world, science and all the mathematical inventions would never have advanced. Think about it. Try calculating the speed of light using Roman numerals. Muuuuuuuuuch easier with Arabic numerals.

I dont know but this is strange quetion.Are they really arabic

may be it might have come from arab so it is called arabic