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SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 24-Mar-2025 23:51:54 JST SuperDicq
- padeluun ⁂
@padeluun@digitalcourage.social Even if he was writing Arabic that also shouldn't be a reason for questioning. Because it's you know, just a language that millions of people speak every day.

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  SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 01:26:45 JST SuperDicq
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  @lothar@social.tchncs.de @padeluun@digitalcourage.social
  
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  lothar (lothar@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 01:26:46 JST lothar
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  I am so unsure whether this was a joke or not.
  Alas, anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals
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    Arabic numerals
    
    The ten Arabic numerals (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9) are the most commonly used symbols for writing numbers. The term often also implies a positional notation number with a decimal base, in particular when contrasted with Roman numerals. However the symbols are also used to write numbers in other bases, such as octal, as well as non-numerical information such as trademarks or license plate identifiers. They are also called Western Arabic numerals, Western digits, European digits, Ghubār numerals, or Hindu–Arabic numerals due to positional notation (but not these digits) originating in India. The Oxford English Dictionary uses lowercase Arabic numerals while using the fully capitalized term Arabic Numerals for Eastern Arabic numerals. In contemporary society, the terms digits, numbers, and numerals often implies only these symbols, although it can only be inferred from context. Europeans first learned of Arabic numerals c. the 10th century, though their spread was a gradual process. After Italian scholar Fibonacci...
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  You Get Glee (get@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 01:30:38 JST You Get Glee
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  @SuperDicq @padeluun @lothar I've never really bought into the idea that muslim goatfuckers who live in mud huts and use feces in their roofing somehow invented numbers. It feels very made up and wewuzkangzish
  
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  padeluun ⁂ (padeluun@digitalcourage.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 02:58:03 JST padeluun ⁂
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  @get @SuperDicq @lothar What a language!
  
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  Griffith (griffith@0.5dollah.click)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 02:58:14 JST Griffith
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  @get @padeluun @SuperDicq @lothar Persians. And why not. It’s not impossible
  
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