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From: oyvinw@ifi.uio.no (yvin Wormn{s)
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Subject: Re: Vehicle paint jobs
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.013853.1568@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 7 Mar 91 01:38:53 GMT
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From: \yvin Wormn{s <oyvinw@ifi.uio.no>
From pd@sics.se (Per Danielsson)
> In article <1991Feb28.051823.9329@cbnews.att.com>, alberta!atrc!pandora!sharma (Rohit Sharma) writes:
 
> >The  ^ mark probably is the number 7 (?) in the arabian
> >script.
 
> No, the numeral 7 in arabic looks like "7". That's why our numerals are called
> arabic numerals...

The number "7" is a "V" in arabic. (SeVen,  was the way I remembered it when
I had to learn the numbers).  The number "8" is an upside-down "V".

That's how I learned it when I had to catch the right bus in Cairo.  The 
numbers should be the same in all varieties of arabic.

\yvin                                                  oyvinw@ifi.uio.no