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From: clj@ksr.com (Chris Jones)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Vehicle paint jobs
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.040236.23330@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 6 Mar 91 04:02:36 GMT
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From: clj@ksr.com (Chris Jones)

In article <1991Mar4.204352.4365@cbnews.att.com>, pd@sics (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...

I don't know why our numerals are called Arabic numerals, but the numeral 7 in
Arabic looks like a "V".  The numerals 1 and 9 look like ours, their 5 looks
astonishlingly like a 0, 0 looks like a center-dot, two and three look vaguely
like the Greek gamma and 4 looks sort of like a sigma, and I forget the rest.
When I was in Egypt in early 1981, I chuckled when I got a 5 piastre coin in
change; it looked like a coin with a big zero in the middle of it.
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Chris Jones    clj@ksr.com    {world,uunet,harvard}!ksr!clj