• RedAggroBest@lemmy.world
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    10 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?

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      10 months ago

      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

      • SheeEttin
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        10 months ago

        Those (first, second, third) are called ordinal numbers, by the way. The regular ones (one, two, three) are cardinal numbers.