In most types of liver disease, the ALT level is higher than AST and the AST/ALT ratio will be low (less than 1). There are a few exceptions; the AST/ALT ratio is usually increased in alcoholic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and in the first day or two of acute hepatitis or injury from bile duct obstruction.
The modern number system was invented by the Indians. Despite that, the numeral system used today is called Arabic or Hindu-Arabic because the Arabs were the ones to bring it to Europe.
Numbers in Spanish. Spanish numbers belong to an Indo-Arabic based decimal system, although the history of the number system is much more ancient. The Babylonians used cuneiform writing as observed in the Code of Hammurabi (Babylonian law code) and the Egyptians used hieroglyphs symbols to represent numbers. In Europe, and therefore in Spain, for many centuries the Roman numeration system dominated.