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		function_seven on April 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet 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"?

bangonkeyboard on April 14, 2020 [–]

Historically, yes, exactly. Modern conventions now favor the left-to-right numeric readings for interoperability.

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