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The reference chases through to https://www.unicode.org/terminology/digits.html

    Term:    ASCII digits 
    Example: 0123456789 U+0030..U+0039 
    Explanation/Description:
        Commonly used with Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and many other scripts, including some non-European scripts. Used in alternation with native digits in scripts that have them. (Some scripts with native digits make only limited use of ASCII digits.) Infrequently used in many of the remaining scripts. 

    Synonyms: Western digits, Latin digits, European digits
Which then links on to: https://www.unicode.org/glossary/#european_digits

> European Digits. Forms of decimal digits first used in Europe and now used worldwide. Historically, these digits were derived from the Arabic digits; they are sometimes called “Arabic numerals,” but this nomenclature leads to confusion with the real Arabic-Indic digits. Also called "Western digits" and "Latin digits." See Terminology for Digits for additional information on terminology related to digits.



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