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Fact check: Is Mamdani introducing Arabic numerals to New York schools? (www.newsweek.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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[–] 49 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Fun fact, what we call Arabic numerals are not the numerals used in Arabic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago

    Nice, didn't know this! According to the article "The numeral system originates from an ancient Indian numeral system," so i guess confusing names are a feauture of numerical symbols, and not a bug.

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