Arabic-L:GEN:Double Number system query

[Dilworth B. Parkinson]

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Date: 09 Jan 2001
From: "Henry C. Farrell" <charfar at worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Double Number system query

Does anyone on the list have more information about these two topics:
 
1) It appears (from looking closely at photographs of Cairo street scenes)
that some Egyptian license plates use Western numbers, some use Arabic
(Hindi) numbers and some have both side-by-side.  Is this actually the case?
 
2) Is it possible that educated Egyptians can switch between the two number
systems with no more difficulty than Americans experience in switching
between between type fonts, between Italic and Roman type fonts, for
instance?
 
Charlotte
charfar at worldnet.att.net
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