Assertion: east arabic numeral | /r/Synonym | were
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text: The Karl Menninger book, which seems pretty comprehensive, says this: The East Arabic numerals are used by all Arabic-writing peoples of the Orient (Egyptians, Syrians, Turks, Persians), and are known there as `Indian' (huruf hindayyah); the West Arabic numerals were the direct ancestors of our own Western numerals, which are popularly called `Arabic'.