SACRAMENTO - There is no law in California requiring students to use Arabic numbers in schools - because they already do. Arabic numerals are what Europeans and Americans use: The 10-digit system. A ...

On 13 March 2018, satire blog The Last Line of Defense garnered more than 11,000 shares for a picture posted on its Facebook page lampooning unsuspecting readers' fear of anything that might make them ...

Have you ever carefully noticed the digits we use every day - 1, 2, 3, and so on? Have you asked yourself where they came from? Most people think, since we refer to them as "Arabic numerals," that ...

As a watch collector — or a high school graduate, for that matter — you’re no doubt familiar with the distinction between Arabic and Roman numerals. Roman numerals are the ones that use Is and Vs in ...

Before the 13th century Europeans used Roman numerals to do arithmetic. Leonardo of Pisa, better known today as Fibonacci, is largely responsible for the adoption of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system in ...

Here’s something Sr. Mary Agatha, your 8th-grade math teacher, never taught you. Before Hindu-Arabic numerals were widespread throughout Christendom, the Cistercian monks throughout Europe in the ...