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?

Question

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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Answer 1

Europeans used to use Roman numerals but they switched to Arabic because it’s much better. Have you seen what large computations look like in Latin. It’s amazing that the Romans managed with it without running out of papyrus