- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:47:16 +0100
- To: Jonathan Rosenne <rosennej@qsm.co.il>
- CC: www-international@w3.org, www-style@w3.org
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.
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