What are the numbers in Egypt and what tourists need to know about them

During rest and travel in Egypt, tourists need to be prepared for the fact that in everyday and official life, modern Arabic numerals are not used here, but traditional Arabic numerals (or, as guides call them, Egyptian numerals, and they are also known as Indo–Arabic), which are very different in spelling. You will find Arabic numerals everywhere in Egypt: car numbers are cauldron with their help, price tags in stores are also often written with them, local calculators work for them, and even banks and exchange offices sometimes use them, perhaps in order to confuse tourists a little😃.

But in fact, this does not mean at all that a tourist and traveler in Egypt cannot do without knowledge of Indo-Arabic numerals. Almost everywhere at resorts in stores, price tags are duplicated on the modern figures we are used to, even on Egyptian money, the value of the banknote is duplicated by them on the one hand. All dates on the goods and prices in the checks are also printed on the usual numbers. Nevertheless, knowledge of traditional Indo-Arabic numerals will allow you to broaden your horizons, in some cases to insure against fraud in the store or when exchanging currency, or even just to show off your awareness in front of local merchants.

Unlike Arabic script, Arabic numerals are read from left to right, i.e. the same as ours. I.e. to translate a number from the Arabic form to the one we are used to, just replace the numbers sequentially in the table, and that's it. And here is the table for replacement:

And here is a simple translation example: ١٣٩ = 139

And if you look at the car number in the photo, you will read there ٩٤٦٤ = 9565