Joe Buck wrote:
> The digits we use come from the Arabs, and look much the same in Arabic.
> Check an Arabic-language site, for example http://www.aljazeera.net/ .
In English, we call them "Arabic Numerals", but that is a bit of a
misnomer. Once upon a time, a long time ago, some Arabs used digits
that looked something like the ones we use today, but not anymore.
Arabic actually has its own set of digits which are quite different from
the ones that we use.
For more info, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals
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Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.specifix.com
