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From: iqbal@eesun.gwu.edu (Iqbal Qazi)
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Subject: Re: Vehicle paint jobs
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.040125.23092@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 6 Mar 91 04:01:25 GMT
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From: iqbal@eesun.gwu.edu (Iqbal Qazi)

In article <1991Mar4.204352.4365@cbnews.att.com> pd@sics.se (Per Danielsson) writes:
>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...

No, the arabic #7 does not look like our 7.  Our numbers are based on,
but don't look like, Arabic numbers.  I forget which number it is, but
I think it is the number 6 that looks like an upsidedown V = "^".

Not that this is relevant or anything,


Iqbal