Eastern Arabic numerals the medieval-era Iranian mathematician and engineer Khwarazmi, whose name was Latinized as "Algoritmi". These numbers are known as ("Indian numbers") in Arabic. They are sometimes also called "Indic numerals" in English. However, that is sometimes discouraged as it can lead to confusion with Indian numerals, used in Brahmic scripts of India. Each numeral in the Persian variant has a different Unicode point even if it looks identical to the Eastern Arabic numeral counterpart. However the variants used with Urdu, Sindhi, and other South Asian languages are not encoded separately from the Persian variants. See U+0660 through U+0669 and U+06F0 through
Kaktovik Inupiaq numerals Kaktovik Inupiaq numerals Inuit languages, like other Eskimo–Aleut languages (and Celtic and Mayan languages as well), use a vigesimal counting system. Inuit counting has sub-bases at 5, 10, and 15. Arabic numerals, consisting of 10 distinct digits (0-9) are not adequate to represent a base-20 system. Students from Kaktovik, Alaska, came up with the "Kaktovik Inupiaq numerals", which has since gained wide use among Alaskan Iñupiat, and has been considered in other countries where dialects of the Inuit language are spoken. The numeral system has helped to revive counting in Inuit languages, which had been falling into disuse among Inuit