On Oct 26, 2007, at 15:23 , Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 11:21:44AM +0200, Pascal Scheffers wrote: >> Other than that, and only judging from the occasional arab, japanese, >> chinese and hebrew website I see but cannot read, most just use roman >> numerals like we do in left to right, most significant digit first. > > I think you mean arabic numerals. Roman numerals are a bit baroque.
But there are non-arabic numbers in use. For example, the learning activity from OLPC Nepal includes a game to learn the numerals in use in Nepal: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-open/2007-October/000216.html (picture of numerals: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/nepali.htm) - Bert - _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
