Eastern Arabic numerals
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eastern-arabic-numerals-183-4969908
title:
Eastern Arabic numerals
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The Eastern Arabic numerals, also called Indo-Arabic numerals, are the symbols used to represent numerical digits in conjunction with the Arabic alphabet in the countries of the Mashriq, the Arabian Peninsula, and its variant in other countries that use the Persian numerals on the Iranian plateau and in Asia. The early Hindu–Arabic numeral system used a variety of shapes. It is unknown when the Western Arabic numeral shapes diverged from those of Eastern Arabic numerals; it is considered that 1,
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Numerals used in the eastern Arab world and Asia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals
date created:
2006-01-08T09:59:02Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T21:04:09Z
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