{"id":53,"date":"2006-09-29T04:15:18","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T11:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/?p=53"},"modified":"2006-09-29T04:15:18","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T11:15:18","slug":"arabic-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/2006\/09\/29\/arabic-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Arabic numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought the west used arabic numbers. I was wrong. The numbers in arabic are represented by different symbols. Who knew?<\/p>\n

That would be ok, if they some of them didn’t look like the numbers used in the west.<\/p>\n

A “5” is a “0”, a “6” is a “7” and a “7” is a “V”, a “0” is a “.” a “4” is “E”. gah.<\/p>\n

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I thought the west used arabic numbers. I was wrong. The numbers in arabic are represented by different symbols. Who knew? That would be ok, if they some of them didn’t look like the numbers used in the west. A “5” is a “0”, a “6” is a “7” and a “7” is a “V”, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-differences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}