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Fact check: Is Mamdani introducing Arabic numerals to New York schools? (www.newsweek.com)
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[–] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

so the numerals we used actually originate from India, first they got adopted by Arabic mathematicians who then brought them to Europe where people started mistakenly calling them "Arabic numerals"

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