It is true that the arabic numérals is arabic alphabets?

Question

The answer is writing in the arabic langage in wikipidia.
رقم عربي

Answer 1

According to a popular tradition, still tough in Egypt and North Africa, the “Arab” figures would be the invention of a glazier geometrician originating in the Maghreb, which would have imagined to give to the nine significant figures an evocative form depending on the number of the angles contained in the drawing of each one of them: an angle for the graphics of figure 1, two angles for figure 2, three angles for the 3, and so on:

http://www.alargam.com/numbers/sir/3.GIF

We will have the following format:

http://www.alargam.com/numbers/sir/2.GIF

This remained after nine and zero as they are. Make turn around eight, six, five, four, three and one. Reverse number two and the figure of seven. The delivery of some of these forms to each other, without change in the arrangement, we get this form:

http://www.alargam.com/numbers/sir/1.GIF

This is an Arabic sentence meaning: My goal is calculation (وهدَفي حسابْ) in Kufi line (This name called on all lines, which tend to location and engineering).

In this ancient manuscript, we find the number two of its original form.

http://www.alargam.com/numbers/sir/4.jpg

Answer 2

Certain Arabic alphabets represent numbers. They are called Abjad, Hawwaz, Huttiy, Kaliman, Sa'fas, etc., etc. where A=1, B=2, J=3, D=4. H=10; W=20, Z=30, H=40, T=50, Y=60, K=70, L=80, M=90, S=100. Then it goes to 1000 and onwards.

On the other hand, the current commonly European used numbers 1 to 10, are called Arabic numeral as opposed to Roman numerals which are combersome. They were invented by the Arabs, including the ZERO (o).

If you want more information, read on:

The so-called Arabic numerals that we use as ciphers to represent our numbers (1,2,3,4, etc.) were invented in India c. 600 A.D. They were first used in the Middle East by the mathematician al-Khwarazmi (c. 875), along with the zero.

Though some Europeans were aware of these "Arabic" computational symbols as early as the 10th century, they did not come into general use until the 13th century in Europe. The point being that up until this time, written texts in Greek, Latin, Hebrew/Aramaic, Arabic/Persian, etc. used letters of the alphabet to represent numbers (the Latin equivalent is Roman numerals).

The Arabic numerals proved far superior for computational purposes to the previous systems (it is not possible to do positional computation with roman numerals, nor did they come with the zero, another gift of India). The older letter/numbers gradually fell out of use, except in certain contexts (specifically the use of Roman numerals and Abjad numerals to mark the page numbers of the introduction of a book and the use of Roman numerals to record the publication date of books until the 19th century and the production date of motion pictures until the 1960s). However, just because the letters were no longer generally used as numbers, this does not mean that the numerical associations died out. Among poets the numbers were used to write chronograms (a word that contains a numerical value; poets frequently tried to find words with a numerical equivalent to the year of someone's death to write an elegy, for example). Theologians and mystics invested the letters and their associated numberical values with mystical significance. I have never studied the matter, but the Bab perhaps took one of his cues for the use of gematria from Fazl Allah Astarabadi, founder of the Horufi sect (Todd Lawson would, I am sure, be able to speak in an informed manner on what is mere speculation on my part).


2) ABJAD SYSTEM AND HOW IT WORKS

There are two principle variations in the Abjad system as to the value of certain letters; the Arabs of North Africa and Spain gave a different alpha-numeric order to some of the letters in the 100s than was common in the Levant and the Islamic east. However, this variation does not affect the values of letters under 100, which have always and everywhere been the same, so far as I know.

The Abjad values and their mnemonic groupings are as follows. Short vowels have no value (except in the beginning of a word, where they are necessarily accompanied by alif/hamza). Note that hamza (') and `ayn (`) are different letters with different values, as are the letters followed by dots (which would be underdots in printed versions of texts rendered in accord with the romanization system used by Shoghi Effendi for Baha'i texts). For the details of why hamza and alif have the same value (i.e., á = ' = 1), see section #4 below:


abjad: hawwaz h.ut.t.i kalaman sa`fas.

á/ ' 1 h 5 h. 8 k 20 s 60
b 2 w/v/ú 6 t. 9 l 30 ` 70
j 3 z 7 y/í 10 m 40 f 80
d 4 n 50 s. 90


qarashat thakhidh d.az.agh

q 100 th 500 d. 800
r 200 kh 600 z. 900
sh 300 dh 700 gh 1000
t 400

Answer 3

This is to distinguish them from Roman numerals. Besides it is a much easier way of writing very large numbers. The Roman system becomes unwieldy. Arabic numerals have nothing to do with the Arabic alphabet.

Answer 4

As far as I know, no, but it is true that the ancient greek letters (as they appear, for example, in the common hellenistic version), along with a couple of other symbols and an accent at times were used as numerals. It is also true that a few letters of the Roman Latin alphabet were used to represent roman latin numerals.

Answer 5

No, the Arabic numerals are Hindi and they are not the same as the letters of the Arabic alphabet.

Answer 6

I'm not 100% sure I understand what you're asking.
Every Arabic letter does have a numeral value just like most Semitic languages (Hebrew or Syriac for instance).
But of course there's a distinction between letters (alef, ba', ta, tha, etc) and numerals (wahid, ithnan, thalatha, etc).

Answer 7

Absolutly not