Arabic numerals Libya to Morocco. Arabs, on the other hand, call the base-10 system (not just these digits) "Hindu numerals", referring to their origin in India. This is not to be confused with what the Arabs call the "Hindi numerals", namely the Eastern Arabic numerals ( - - - - - - - - - ) used in the Middle East, or any of the numerals currently used in Indian languages (e.g. Devanagari: ). The European acceptance of the numerals was accelerated by the invention of the printing press, and they became widely known during the 15th century. Early evidence of their
Korean numerals tensed consonants when possible. Thus for example: Several numerals have long vowels, namely (two), (three) and (four), but these become short when combined with other numerals / nouns (such as in twelve, thirteen, fourteen and so on). The usual liaison and consonant-tensing rules apply, so for example, "yesun-yeoseot" (sixty-six) is pronounced like ("yesun-nyeoseot") and "chil-sip" (seventy) is pronounced like "chil-ssip". "Beon" (), "ho" (), "cha" (), and "hoe" () are always used with Sino-Korean or Arabic ordinal numerals. For example, "Yihoseon" () is Line Number Two in a metropolitan subway system. "Samsipchilbeongukdo" () is highway number 37. They cannot be