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The digits used in Arabic script.
Also known as: Eastern numerals, Hindi numerals
The numeral forms used with Arabic script across the Middle East, distinct in shape from the Latin digits that descend from the same source.
Write numbers in Arabic-script text across much of the Middle East.
Contexts: Mathematics, Software
Written left to right even inside right-to-left text, so a number in an Arabic sentence runs against the direction of the words around it — the single most common source of bidirectional text bugs.
Contexts: Mathematics, Software
Zero is a bare dot and five is a shape a Latin reader reads as a zero, which makes misreading these two the commonest error for a non-reader looking at an Arabic number.
Contexts: Mathematics, Software
Ten distinct forms, among them a bare dot for zero, a small upright stroke for one and a mirrored heart-like figure for five.