Fun Fact of the Day

Today we're gonna talk about a fun fact.

If you read my previous posts, I mentioned something about my arabic lessons being interesting but of little help.
Therefore I decided to change to another language centre.
the New language centre is somehow better, even though i was in a class of 3 only.
My Ustaz as they call the teachers here, (Ustazah for female teachers), is a superb teacher.
So on the first day of my lesson, he told me a very interesting fact regarding numbers,numbers we use in our daily lives, in mathematics, in road signs, in addresses, in food recipes.

Generally most of us know that there are different numbers such as Greek numbers I.E- I, II,III,IV..... and the normal numbers we write everyday I.E 1,2,3,4.....
However, one very confused and mistaken perception is that The numbers we see in arabic newspapers and countries are arabic numbers, when it is actually Hindi/persian.

yeahs, ۱۲۳..... is not arabic numbers. They are hindi or persian, i can't quite remember.

But that's not quite the surprise.
The most unbelievable thing i found out, but is 100% fact and not fiction is that the real arabic numbers are the ones we use everyday, I.E 1,2,3,4,5,6.....

Everyone looked in disbelief because it is a norm that we usually say
I,II,III ...=greek numbers,
۱,۲,۳=arabic,
1,2,3,4= English.

The truth is, English is a thief of numbers.not that it's something to be vulgar about or anything like that.
It is said that, as the arabs traded with the hindis, they traded knowledge as well. Therefore, they started using hindi numbers and it became a common practice, just as the so-called English numbers were taken from the arabs.

So remember guys

I,II,III...- greek
۱۲۳....-Hindi
1,2,3,4- Arabic.

Get you facts right :)

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