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

If you look at the Hindu-Arabic numerals first used in Europe in the middle ages, they looked very much like modern numerals used in Arabic. This is the modern set:

١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩٠

Some of those will look more familiar if you rotate them 90 degrees CCW.

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