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In addition to Western and Eastern Arabic numeral symbols is there any other numeral symbols in active use nowadays? There is 460 decimal (46 numeral set) and 224 non-decimal number in Unicode, which ones are in use? (You can use BabelPad to see the numeral Unicode characters)

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Yes, there are several systems of numeral symbols in active use; for example, Chinese numbers are in very active use.

Many of the systems are described to some extent in the Unicode Standard; start from section 15.3 Numerals to find such info.

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  • Thanks, In china photos I see they use Western Arabic, Is Chinese numbers are used concurrently with it? Which others numeral systems are used officially?
    – Real Dreams
    Commented Jan 20, 2013 at 8:30
  • @PHPst The Chinese numerals are used where we would use words: 五 means "five" while 5 means "5".
    – Damian Yerrick
    Commented Feb 4, 2015 at 21:36

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