Apr 29 · 2014
killveous: “thepowerofmoonlight: “ Learnt an interesting thing today on this arabic course, The original Arabic number system looked like this, the one we now use. It was designed so each character had the corresponding number of angles to the...

killveous:

thepowerofmoonlight:

Learnt an interesting thing today on this arabic course,

The original Arabic number system looked like this, the one we now use.

It was designed so each character had the corresponding number of angles to the number, so the number 1 has 1 angle, 2 has 2 angles, 3 has 3, 0 has none etc…

It is so obvious now, I’ve always assumed its one of those things that just is, with no logical explanation, but here it is, perfectly simple and satisfying

you gave 5, 7 and 9 like way more angles than you should. Also 0 would have four if you are going to make them all digital.

sucky.

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