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In April 2016, a story popped up on a hoax news web site reporting that former Alaska governor (and John McCain's running mate in the 2008 Presidential race) Sarah Palin took to Facebook to demand a ban on Arabic numerals in U.S. schools: There is no truth to this story, which came from a well-known (and prolific) hoax and satire news site. The joke in this case is that Arabic numerals (also known as Hindu-Arabic numerals) are the numbers most familiar to much of the world, and originated in India during the 6th or 7th century. They were introduced to Europe by mathematicians from what is now the Middle East (shown here as they appeared in the Codex Vigilianus around the 10th century):
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