r/pics • u/Faithismyname08 • Aug 13 '21

Doctor in #Yemen wrote in his car “ stop me if you need any medical consultation”

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u/ohverygood Aug 13 '21

I thought numerals were already Arabic?

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u/Fuego65 Aug 13 '21

Arabic numerals is a misleading name, there are in fact 2 "Arabic" numerals systems, one called Western Arabic (Which became the one we all know) and the other, called Eastern Arabic is very very close to Persian and Urdu numerals, which are in turn related to other ways of writing numbers in all of India.

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u/I-want-to-be-mad Aug 13 '21

Arabs stopped using Arabic numerals and replaced them with Indian numerals..