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  2. Alphabetic numeral system - Wikipedia

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    The Greek alphabet has 24 letters; three additional letters had to be incorporated in order to reach 900. Unlike the Greek, the Hebrew alphabet's 22 letters allowed for numerical expression up to 400. The Arabic abjad's 28 consonant signs could represent numbers up to 1000. Ancient Aramaic alphabets had enough letters to reach up to 9000.

  3. Abjad numerals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    The Abjad numerals are a decimal numeral system in which the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet are assigned numerical values. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

  4. Decimal separator - Wikipedia

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    In the Arab world, where Eastern Arabic numerals are used for writing numbers, a different character is used to separate the integer and fractional parts of numbers. It is referred to as an Arabic decimal separator (U+066B, rendered: ٫ ‎) in Unicode. An Arabic thousands separator (U+066C, rendered: ٬ ‎) also exists.

  5. Arabic script in Unicode - Wikipedia

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    In English, the common ampersand (&) developed from a ligature in which the handwritten Latin letters e and t (spelling et, Latin for and) were combined. [1] The rules governing ligature formation in Arabic can be quite complex, requiring special script-shaping technologies such as the Arabic Calligraphic Engine by Thomas Milo's DecoType.

  6. Arabic numerals - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford English Dictionary uses lowercase Arabic numerals while using the fully capitalized term Arabic Numerals for Eastern Arabic numerals. [3] In contemporary society, the terms digits, numbers, and numerals often implies only these symbols, although it can only be inferred from context.

  7. Eastern Arabic numerals - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern Arabic numerals, also called Indo-Arabic numerals or Arabic-Indic numerals as known by Unicode, are the symbols used to represent numerical digits in conjunction with the Arabic alphabet in the countries of the Mashriq (the east of the Arab world), the Arabian Peninsula, and its variant in other countries that use the Persian numerals on the Iranian plateau and in Asia.

  8. Arabic numeral variations - Wikipedia

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    The old-style numeral one can resemble a capital "I" reduced to x-height, and this can lead to confusion e.g. of the number 11 (when written in old-style digits) with the Roman numeral II (meaning the number two). On the other hand, with some sans serif faces, using lining figures, there can be confusion between the figure 1, lower case l (L ...

  9. Arabic chat alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Those letters that do not have a close phonetic approximation in the Latin script are often expressed using numerals or other characters, so that the numeral graphically approximates the Arabic letter that one would otherwise use (e.g. ع is represented using the numeral 3 because the latter looks like a vertical reflection of the former).