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How to say the number 92(i.imgur.com)

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And that’s because the numbers we use today where originally brought to Europe by Arabs. Arabic is read right to left. So having reading numbers that way used to be the ‘correct’ way in lots of languages. German is just one of the few ones that stuck with it.

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People only borrowed the symbols for numbers from Arabic, not the actual concept of numbers themselves.

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