Sunday, July 3, 2011

Having been exposed to Arabic language related stuff for the past few days, one thing struck me which I thought should post. I am not sure if everyone know this.

Arabic is written from right to left unlike most of the other languages. This is a well known fact.
But the Arabic numerals are written left to right. I was just wondering why this paradox.

Might be because the Arabs borrowed the number system from Indians they were forced to follow
what Indians had developed :-)