Talk - Revised Arabic Font (4 of 4)
From Nash Seifeddine <aa5...@freenet.carleton.ca>
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· 8 Jul 1994 23:07 · View full thread
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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, cry...@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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,914ea43a948b15f8 X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-07-08 16:10:17 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!sashimi.wwa.com!gagme.wwa.com!not-for-mail From: aa5...@freenet.carleton.ca (Nash Seifeddine) Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii Subject: Talk - Revised Arabic Font (4 of 4) Date: 8 Jul 1994 18:07:43 -0500 Organization: The National Capital FreeNet Lines: 114 Sender: bob...@gagme.wwa.com Approved: bob...@gagme.wwa.com Message-ID: <2vkm7v$gm...@gagme.wwa.com> References: <2v7g31$8...@gagme.wwa.com> <2v7ehn$se...@gagme.wwa.com> <2v7f0o$sk...@gagme.wwa.com> <2v7f65$sp...@gagme.wwa.com> Reply-To: aa5...@freenet.carleton.ca (Nash Seifeddine) NNTP-Posting-Host: gagme.wwa.com
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