"Even in Arabic, numbers are the exception, written from left to write." This is true in modern times, but in antiquity Arabic and Hebrew numerals were written

"Even in Arabic, numbers are the exception, written from left to write." This is true in modern times, but in antiquity Arabic and Hebrew numerals were written right-to-left. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjad_numerals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjad_numerals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_numerals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_numerals