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I know it is a small sample - but good grief....
This. One would almost think it intentional....
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)And Bartcop
PJMcK
(21,916 posts)Since they're so much easier to learn and use. As an added bonus, there's no zero!
Numbers are cool as long as they don't support terrorists!
(sarcasm)
Girard442
(6,059 posts)nuxvomica
(12,360 posts)Cosmocat
(14,543 posts)in America 2019 ...
calimary
(80,693 posts)LeftishBrit
(41,190 posts)At New York Kennedy airport today, an individual later discovered to be a public school teacher, was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a setsquare, a slide rule and a calculator.
Attorney general John Ashcroft believes the man is a member of the notorious al-gebra movement. He is being charged with carrying weapons of math instruction.
"Al-gebra is a very fearsome cult, indeed", Ashcroft said. "They desire average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on a tangent in a search of absolute value. They consist of quite shadowy figures, with names like "x" and "y", and, although they are frequently referred to as "unknowns", we know they really belong to a common denominator and are part of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country.
"As the great Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, there are 3 sides to every triangle."
When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes."
Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,362 posts)Men are better at math because they can count to 21.
Not true. Women can count to 22.
erronis
(14,942 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,853 posts)I'm probably ignoring the obvious.
keithbvadu2
(36,362 posts)calimary
(80,693 posts)Response to LeftishBrit (Reply #5)
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Cosmocat
(14,543 posts)but this country is simply stupid as fuck ...
LastDemocratInSC
(3,625 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,362 posts)The Arabic numerals used in the Arabic world.
keithbvadu2
(36,362 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,362 posts)An interesting history of Arabic numerals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals
paleotn
(17,778 posts)was brought to Western Europe by Fibonacci. The Hindu-Arabic system of numeration is one of the greatest human achievements. Try navigating Apollo 11 with Roman numerals.
Drives me nuts when I hear Steve Bannon types drone on and on about white, Western European civilization. Civilization? At the time of the crusades, we were a bunch of ignorant, filthy, disease ridden barbarians. My people were living in stone hovels on the far north western edge of the known world, believing in fairies and relics and running around stealing each others cattle. While Chinese, African, Hindu and Arab worlds produced some of the most advanced civilizations on earth. Some millennia before us. We had forgotten and had to rediscover nearly all the Romans and Greeks knew. And many times thanks to the Arabs, who preserved Greek and Roman achievements. Oh, and those Greeks and Romans....they were southern Europeans. Today, white supremacists discount their progeny as well.