Usage
Numbers are traditionally read with the smallest element first (e.g., "four-and-twenty" instead of "twenty-four") although in Modern Standard Arabic the order is: thousand-hundred-unit-decimal (e.g., 21353 is read: one and twenty thousand and three hundred and three and fifty). Written numerals are arranged with their lowest-value digit to the right, with higher value positions added to the left. This is identical to the arrangement used by Western texts using Western Arabic numerals, even though Arabic script is read from right to left. There is no conflict unless numerical layout is necessary, as is the case for arithmetic problems (as in simple addition or multiplication) and lists of numbers, which tend to be justified at the decimal point/comma.
Read more about this topic: Eastern Arabic Numerals
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