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Fact check: Is Mamdani introducing Arabic numerals to New York schools?
(www.newsweek.com)
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The monster! My kids will learn Roman numerals and Greek math that stops at 10000! Like nature intended!
Next thing you know, they'll be teaching our kids algebra and algorithms.
Al-Gebra
And Al-Khawarizmi.
Yeah but at least it won't affect my Al-cohol
“Zero”? The fuck kind of sorcery is this? If a number can’t be counted, it has no place in my concept of math!
- Ancient Romans
OK kids, pop quiz, grab your chisels and work out the square root of XXV!
V
You get IX/X, I took a mark off because you didn't show your work.