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Fact check: Is Mamdani introducing Arabic numerals to New York schools? (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 2 months ago by solrize@lemmy.ml to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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Another post from betting market company Polymarket read: "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals." The post has almost 14 million views.

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[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

O my God!

Not aribic!!!!

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And the Latin alphabet (plus a couple letters) too. Damn furriners. Bring back the Futhark!

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago

I was always taught that these were called "Hindu-Arabic numerals"

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl -5 points 2 months ago (16 children)

by using a term that some readers may find unfamiliar even though it refers to the numbers Americans already use

I dont understand this. When I was in Palestine, they definitely used different numerals.

Like, I guess they invented base 10? Or math? But the characters they use for numbers are absolutely different

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