How come there are several widely used alphabets in the world (Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic, Chinese etc) but only one set of numbers (Arabic) most of the world uses?

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While Latin Alphabet is dominant, Chinese and Arabic letters are widely used as well, along with several others. But most everyone in the world uses Arabic numerals, even though there are others. Why is that?

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The world uses the Arabic *number system*, and the same math in general, because it was the best available and we all standardized on it. However plenty of scripts out there have their own versions of Arabic numbers, so it’s not like everyone is writing 0-9 (in figures or words) exactly the same.

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