Eastern Arabic numerals

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Eastern Arabic numerals are the set of digit symbols used in many Arabic- and Persian-writing regions as the standard way to represent numbers in the Perso-Arabic script.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf digit set
numeral system
adoptedIn Islamic Golden Age
alsoKnownAs Eastern Arabic numerals
surface form: Arabic–Indic numerals

Eastern Arabic numerals
surface form: Eastern Arabic–Indic numerals
contrastedWith Western Arabic numerals
developedFrom Indian numerals
digitCount 10
digitRange 0–9
digitSymbolForEight ٨
digitSymbolForFive ٥
digitSymbolForFour ٤
digitSymbolForNine ٩
digitSymbolForOne ١
digitSymbolForSeven ٧
digitSymbolForSix ٦
digitSymbolForThree ٣
digitSymbolForTwo ٢
digitSymbolForZero ٠
hasVariant Extended Arabic-Indic numerals
historicalOrigin Hindu–Arabic numeral system
numeralBase base-10
numericSystemType positional notation
scriptContext used with Arabic alphabet
used with Persian alphabet
standardIn Arabic-script typography
unicodeBlock Arabic-Indic Digits
unicodeRange U+0660–U+0669
usedFor currency amounts
dates
page numbering
representing decimal numbers
usedInComputing supported in Unicode
usedInEducation taught in Arabic-speaking countries
usedInLanguage Arabic
Sorani
surface form: Kurdish (Sorani)

Pashto language
surface form: Pashto

Persian language
surface form: Persian

Sindhi
Urdu language
surface form: Urdu

Uyghur Arabic alphabet
surface form: Uyghur (Arabic script)
usedInRegion Afghanistan
Iran
Middle East
North Africa
Pakistan
writingDirection right-to-left
writingSystem Perso-Arabic script
zeroConcept includes a symbol for zero

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Eastern Arabic numerals alsoKnownAs Eastern Arabic numerals
this entity surface form: Arabic–Indic numerals
Eastern Arabic numerals alsoKnownAs Eastern Arabic numerals
this entity surface form: Eastern Arabic–Indic numerals
Perso-Arabic script supportsNumeralSystem Eastern Arabic numerals