[FraaJad]

Just the fact that you are conflating persian and "arabic" words makes me chuckle.

They are quite different, even if they are close geographically. Ask a an actual Iranian/Perisan if they would like to mistaken for a Saudi/Arabic.

[moate]

You say this like I made these cultural choices on how to name these things.

I'm not conflation "Persian" with "Arabic". I wouldn't call an Iranian a Saudi anymore than I'd call an Indian a Pakistani. But the widespread adoption of the numbers and their naming happened during times when people modern nomenclature hadn't taken hold.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu%E2%80%93Arabic_numeral_s...

I didn't write this article, so I'm not the only person in the world making these assumptions. I understand that there are some weird problematic names that still exist for common objects, but this is genuinely something I'd just assumed most people accepted as the name, especially in the West.