"BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is expected to require ALL New York Elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals," one post on X from member of the West Virginia House of Delegates Derrick Evans read. Evans was also as part of the January 6 attack on the Capitol. The post has over 300,000 views as of Thursday morning.
Magnarc said
08:13 AM Nov 25, 2025
I can see why you are laughing Dorian. Only in America.
There's a lot of gullible folks out there in internet land.
-- Edited by Magnarc on Tuesday 25th of November 2025 08:16:47 AM
Roy E said
04:47 PM Nov 26, 2025
Having lived for 14 1/2 years in the ME, Oman and the UAE, most of the locals there incorrectly believed that the Farsi (Persian) number system is Arabic. I showed the Arabs that worked for and with me that our "English" numeral system was in fact Arabic but I guess Mandami is a fair bit behind the times.
Whenarewethere said
07:16 PM Nov 26, 2025
They will really sh_t themselves when told any half decent watch or clock should be using Roman Numerals!
dorian said
01:14 PM Nov 27, 2025
Roy E wrote:
Having lived for 14 1/2 years in the ME, Oman and the UAE, most of the locals there incorrectly believed that the Farsi (Persian) number system is Arabic. I showed the Arabs that worked for and with me that our "English" numeral system was in fact Arabic but I guess Mandami is a fair bit behind the times.
The Eastern Arabic numerals, also called Indo-Arabic numerals or Arabic-Indic numerals as known by Unicode, are the symbols used to represent numerical digits in conjunction with the Arabic alphabet in the countries of the Mashriq (the east of the Arab world), the Arabian Peninsula, and its variant in other countries that use the Persian numerals on the Iranian plateau and in Asia.
I can't stop laughing.
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-mamdani-arabic-numerals-new-york-schools-11079540
"BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is expected to require ALL New York Elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals," one post on X from member of the West Virginia House of Delegates Derrick Evans read. Evans was also as part of the January 6 attack on the Capitol. The post has over 300,000 views as of Thursday morning.
I can see why you are laughing Dorian. Only in America.
There's a lot of gullible folks out there in internet land.
-- Edited by Magnarc on Tuesday 25th of November 2025 08:16:47 AM
They will really sh_t themselves when told any half decent watch or clock should be using Roman Numerals!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals
The Eastern Arabic numerals, also called Indo-Arabic numerals or Arabic-Indic numerals as known by Unicode, are the symbols used to represent numerical digits in conjunction with the Arabic alphabet in the countries of the Mashriq (the east of the Arab world), the Arabian Peninsula, and its variant in other countries that use the Persian numerals on the Iranian plateau and in Asia.
The numeral system originates from an ancient Indian numeral system, which was reintroduced[to whom?][when?] during the Islamic Golden Age in the book On the Calculation with Hindic Numerals written by the Persian mathematician and engineer al-Khwarizmi, whose name was Latinized as Algoritmi.
Each numeral in the Persian variant has a different Unicode point even if it looks identical to the Eastern Arabic numeral counterpart.
I think you missed the joke. Read the news article. A bunch of Trump's rightards latched onto a parody and mindlessly propagated it as real news.