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From: aa542@freenet.carleton.ca (Nash Seifeddine)
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Subject: Talk - Revised Arabic Font (4 of 4)
Date: 8 Jul 1994 18:07:43 -0500
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It is true the numerals in the post below are Arabic numerals.  However,
most fo the Arab countries use (officially) the Hindi numerals.  Yes, kind
of strange to see somebody giving something to the world then stop using
it.  There is a big come back to the Arabic numerals tho, due to
nationalism and other factors.  Many groups, and gouvernemnets are
switching back to Arabic Numerals, the real ones.   For example, In
Lebabon, offially people use the Hindi numerals, some groupos withing the
country use the Arabic ones.  In Lybia for example, they strictly use the
Arabic numerals (the real ones).  I donno where the origin of using the
Hindi numerals came from... no idea.... actually....wanna laugh.....
I did not know that the Arabic Numerals were Arabic untill I attended
school in North America!!! yes....it is true...




In a previous article, crythene@aol.com (Crythene) says:

>
>                               ARABIC NUMERALS
>                               ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~
>
>Numerals written in Arabic look just like numerals written in English.
>This is because the numerals the Arabic people came up with are just
>tons easier to work with than the ones the Romans came up with and
>everybody switched over to the Arabic numerals a couple of centuries
>ago for everything except the dates at the end of movie credits.  In
>fact, we still refer to our numerals as "Arabic numerals".
>
> 6     .::
> 5      ::
> 4      ::
> 3      ::
> 2      ::
> 1      ::
>
> 6     .:::.
> 5    :'  .:
> 4       .:'
> 3     .:'
> 2    .:'
> 1   .::::::'
>
> 6    .:::::.
> 5   :'    .:
> 4        .:'
> 3        `:.
> 2   :.    `:
> 1    `:::::'
> 
> 6      .::
> 5    .:'::
> 4  .:'  ::
> 3  `:::::::
> 2       ::
> 1       ::
> 
> 6  :::::::
> 5  ::
> 4  `::::.
> 3      `:.
> 2  :.   ::
> 1   `::::'
> 
> 6     .:
> 5    .:'
> 4   .:'
> 3  .::..
> 2  ::''::
> 1  `::::' 
> 
> 6   .:::::
> 5  :'  .:'
> 4     .:'
> 3    .:'
> 2   .:'
> 1  .:'
> 
> 6  .::::.
> 5  ::  ::
> 4  `:..:'
> 3  .:'':.
> 2  ::  ::
> 1  `::::'
> 
> 6  .::::.
> 5  ::  ::
> 4  `:::':
> 3      ::
> 2      ::
> 1      ::
>
> 6  .::::.
> 5  ::  ::
> 4  ::  ::
> 3  ::  ::
> 2  ::  ::
> 1  `::::'
>
>
>::                  ::
>::                  ::
>::           *      ::
>::    .     ...     ::
>::.  :::   :''':   .::.  .:. . :.
>`::::' `:::`:::':::''``:::::::::'
>     * *
>
>     (Sylvia)
>

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