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Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet by function_seven on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @11:37AM (#22867279)
Wait, so 1,672 in arabic script would have appeared the same way, but would have been read as (something like) "two seventy six hundred and a thousand"?
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Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet by bangonkeyboard on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @11:51AM (#22867450)
Historically, yes, exactly. Modern conventions now favor the left-to-right numeric readings for interoperability.
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