• 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I went throught the US School system in 2 blue cities and the term “Arabic Numerals” were never once uttered in any of my classes.

    My dad always told me these are called Arabic Numerals… and he did not go through the US Education system (went to school in a different country)… so… take that how you will…

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Did you ever learn Roman numerals? I think that’s probably when I was taught that “regular” numbers are called Arabic numerals.

      That, or I just learned it through messing with my computer’s character sets or whatever.