Don't understand why you've been downvoted This article even mentions Hindi-Arabic numbers, which is an interesting thing to me as a student of the Arabic lang

Don't understand why you've been downvoted This article even mentions Hindi-Arabic numbers, which is an interesting thing to me as a student of the Arabic language My teacher explained to us once, the numbers we use are called Arabic numbers, but Arabs don't actually use them... they use Hindi numbers. ١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩٠ Which is twice as funny as Arabs not actually using Arabic numbers, because (he said) especially Muslims are very prejudiced against Hindi people and Hindu religion. He would say things like "silly Hindu", then have a big belly laugh and get back to serious classwork.