Arabic Numerals

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Arabic Numerals

What Americans call "Arabic Numerals" are simply not the same as the ones used by Arabs for at least a millennium. Any educated Arab will tell you the Arabs use Indian Numerals, as show below in an example taken from a 1982 Iraqi Airlines calendar.

Indian numerals as they appear on a 1982 Iraqi Airlines calendar. Though Arabic reads from right to left, individual numbers are formed left to right. Even a novice will have no trouble finding the numerals 1, 9, 11 and 19, as they look very much like their western "Arabic" counterparts.