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Naming is Hard

The Array Cast

CHAPTER

How to Spell a Number in Arabic

The number of lines that you need to spell it if they're all like sort of the same length to generate that so you end up with eight that in the system looks kind of weird and then nine is just eight with an extra line on it which you know at some point of all to look like nine but anyways it's just even looking at the cover we haven't read the book we haven't done our research but you can see that there is more motivation than one would sort of naively expect. I'm sure they started off at least the lower did you start it off as counting sticks type things and one line for one two lines for two but that's welcome to the glyph cast this

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