• I mean, I’ve personally never heard of the term “Arabic Numeral” being uttered in a classroom from 2nd grade all the way through Highschool in the US Schools I’ve went to. It’s just “write the numbers in words” or in “numbers/digits”.

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      10 hours ago

      Damn, maybe the US system is worse than I thought.

      There are so many general knowledge things that aren’t necessary for survival or to do your job that the general populace seems to lack. This is one of them