Arabic numeral

The shift from Roman to Arabic numeral in the title suggests the revival’s relaxed, contemporary tone.

“If we went to a math textbook creator and said, ‘Hey, can you build us a textbook but convert the Arabic numerals into Kaktovik numerals?’ it would be that much easier,” Judkins says.

Critics called the initiative an attempt to intimidate teachers and suggested flooding the tip line with tongue-in-cheek complaints, such as the sarcastically dire warning that Virginia schools were teaching “Arabic numerals.”

The astrolabes were often inscribed with Arabic numerals.

Arabic numerals are tools which enable me to add and subtract, multiply and divide on a piece of paper far more fluently than I could with Roman numerals.