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Eastern Arabic digit

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Also known as Eastern Arabic digits, Arabic-Indic digit, Arabic-Indic digits, Arabic-Indic numeral, Arabic-Indic numerals, Eastern Arabic numeral, Eastern Arabic numerals

symbol used to represent numbers in the Eastern Arabic numeral system (or Arabic-Indic)

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Encyclopedic overview

Eastern Arabic numerals on a clock in the Cairo Metro Eastern (above) and Western (below) Arabic numerals on a Saudi car license plate Eastern Arabic numerals on a car license plate in Iran

Sign-value notation

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eastern Arabic digit” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.