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

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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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[-] Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 months ago

LOL... as opposed to using Roman numerals? WTAF. I can't even comprehend the stupid.

[-] FahrenheitGhost@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

How about good old American numerals, like the good Lord intended?

[-] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

You mean the good old freedom numerals?

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago

They only call them that in the Gulf of America

[-] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

No zero in roman numerals. All the computers would break.

[-] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago

Computers use binary, not roman numbers 🤓

[-] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

No arabic #s no 0, no 0 no binary.

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