Where people fail with this is in their innumeracy. These symbols originated in India. Italics mine.
"The term often implies a number written in the Hindu–Arabic numeral system, the most common system for the symbolic representation of numbers in the world today."
"The term often implies a number written in the Hindu–Arabic numeral system, the most common system for the symbolic representation of numbers in the world today."
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.