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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Mini rabbit hole...I was wondering if they write numbers backwards, since they compose right to left. They do not, the write them the same as us. They see it as reading the least significant digit first.
It also points out that Arabic numerals originated in India, where they compose in both directions.
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-numera...ight-in-Arabic |
Yes and no. It's actually extremely confusing if you're not speaking the language on a daily basis.
For example, the number 241 385 is read from left to right in English ( two hundred, forty-one thousand, three hundred, eighty-five).
In Arabic it bounces around a lot ( two hundred and one and forty thousand, three hundred and five and eighty).