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Now arabs do 2+90 as well but it makes sense because they write right to left and so they write the 2 before the 90
Oh, interesting. Now I wonder, if that's why Germany and friends adopted it that way. We all imported our numerals from the arabs after all...
Yep, this is exactly why!