1850: Math in Right-to-Left Scripts Jan 8, 2020

Just as languages written right-to-left present problems for sheet-music, math presents similar challenges. Indeed, while a great deal of math, including 'algebra' and 'Arabic numerals' were originally often right-to-left, Western dominance (and its own version of those numerals) has changed this. So, these days, many cultures will continue to write numbers and equations etc. left-to-right even if it appears in a right-to-left sentence like in Hebrew, whereas in other cultures, especially with Arabic, Persian etc. which have their own numerals and other symbols, they can do both. Generally however, they will use the Western numerals and work left-to-right.

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