“…The Arabic number system is the world's most widely-used number system (see Zhang and Norman, 1995; Chrisomalis, 2004; Widom and Schlimm, 2012, for taxonomies of number systems). It relies on a simple formal structure: Based on a set of ten symbols (i.e., 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) it is possible to assemble any possible number.…”