If you mean the Eastern Arabic numerals that appear on, say, automobile licence plates, checks/cheques, and [some] clock faces in the Arab countries and Iran, viz.,
٠ ١ ٢ ٣ ٤ ٥ ٦ ٧ ٨ ٩ i.e., 0, 1, 2, . . . , 9, they appear exactly as they do in an English- or French-language document. Their users say that this sequence is right-to-left because right-to-left is the sequence in which decimal numerals figure in the elementary arithmetic operations; and their argument is, I think, persuasive. Ancient Hebrew texts exhibit many forms [including boustrophedon]. Modern Israeli Hebrew text often uses our familiar Western Arabic numerals written as we write them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
