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minus-square@[email protected]cakelinkfedilinkEnglish17•5 months ago XXIst I’ve been seeing this on Lemmy lately, why are people going to roman numerals? Do we hate Arabic now? It’s not saving keystrokes unless I’m crazy?
minus-squareBudgieManialinkfedilink14•5 months agoin certain parts of the world they really ingrained in us that roman numerals are the proper way to do it and it’s very hard to shake off, apologies
minus-square@SheeEttinlinkEnglish1•5 months agoThose (first, second, third) are called ordinal numbers, by the way. The regular ones (one, two, three) are cardinal numbers.
I’ve been seeing this on Lemmy lately, why are people going to roman numerals? Do we hate Arabic now? It’s not saving keystrokes unless I’m crazy?
in certain parts of the world they really ingrained in us that roman numerals are the proper way to do it and it’s very hard to shake off, apologies
Those (first, second, third) are called ordinal numbers, by the way. The regular ones (one, two, three) are cardinal numbers.
Romanes eunt domus!
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