Eastern Arabic numerals
Numerals used in the eastern Arab world and Asia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For Western Arabic Numerals, see Arabic numerals.
The Eastern Arabic numerals, also called Indo-Arabic numerals, are the symbols used to represent numerical digits in conjunction with the Arabic alphabet in the countries of the Mashriq (the east of the Arab world), the Arabian Peninsula, and its variant in other countries that use the Persian numerals on the Iranian plateau and in Asia.
The early Hindu–Arabic numeral system used a variety of shapes.[1] It is unknown when the Western Arabic numeral shapes diverged from those of Eastern Arabic numerals; it is considered that 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 9 are related in both versions, but 6, 7 and 8 are from different sources.[2]