Arabic Numerals.

Have you ever seen these numbers before ? 


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 


Or even those ?

If I asked you where are the Arabic number ? you would probably say : "The second ones" because we already use them. 

Ok, we use them, yet they weren't the original Arabic numbers.

They are Indian numbers. Arabs just took them in past.

Buy you might ask, How was the original Arabic numbers?

Here is the answer: these 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9.

Are you surprised ?! Yes, they were the original Arabic number which are use in may countries as English numbers.

In fact, they weren't in this style. If you wonder how they were, well .. they were like this : 

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Do you know the Latin numbers ? Which based on : How many stick = the number.

For Example II = two sticks = 2 , III = 3.

But you are wondering, what the original Arabic number based on? and why they look like that ?

It is basically based on the inner angles, just like that : 

If you can notice that, every number reflects the number of angles it has.

In fact, if we just rotate some numbers of them, we'll got an Arabic sentence that says :"My goal is accounting".

As shown the following picture:

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals & I ^_^.