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

Of course they knew what nothing meant. They even had a word for it: nullum. Sounds familiar, somehow. But the key is to apply this to math, and having an actual symbol for it.

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