Eastern Arabic numerals
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They are sometimes also called "Indic Numerals" in English[link], however, this nomenclature is sometimes discouraged as it "leads to confusion with the digits currently used with the scripts of India"[link] (see Indian numerals).
In most of present-day North Africa, the usual Western numerals (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) are used; in medieval times, a slightly different set (from which, via Italy, Western "Arabic numerals" derive) was used. The numerals are arranged with their lowest value digit to the right, with higher value positions added to the left. This arrangement was adopted identically into the numerals as used in Europe. The Latin alphabet running from left to right, unlike the Arabic alphabet, this resulted in an inverse arrangement of the place-values relative to the direction of reading.
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