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Question about numbers 0,4,7

I started learning hiragana and while i was at it i also started learning some basic stuff like colors and numbers.

I have two textbooks and in one  numbers are like this: 0:零 rei, 4:四 yon and 7:七 shichi

and in other as: 0:ゼロ zero,4 し shi and 7:なな nana

Why is that is that because of a dialect, is one textbook incorrect or do each have some special uses?

January 3, 2018
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