Jonathan Rosenne wrote: > In Arabic, the traditional digits are called Hindi, and the modern western > style digits are the Arabic digits. > They are, however, very different from the numerals that are actually used for Hindi. Also, I think, in Hindi, numbers are written most significant digit first. Incidentally, a more academic way of describing place value and zero systems in English is "Hindu-Arabic". -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.Received on Tuesday, 2 June 2009 07:47:53 UTC
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