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Keep em ignorant, right? But there is stupid and then there is STUPID. (Original Post) Soph0571 May 2019 OP
I miss George rickyhall May 2019 #1
Let's bring back Roman numerals PJMcK May 2019 #2
Yeah, shouldn't that have been: "XLIV % said no?" Girard442 May 2019 #3
"Sharia math" on Veep nuxvomica May 2019 #4
The Jonah storyline so sadly rings true Cosmocat May 2019 #6
Maybe we shouldn't be giving the Stupids any ideas... calimary May 2019 #17
From 2004: LeftishBrit May 2019 #5
Lol. 😂 Arkansas Granny May 2019 #8
Men are better at math because they can count to 21. Not true. Women can count to 22. keithbvadu2 May 2019 #9
It took me awhile.... ;- erronis May 2019 #15
I'm struggling here LOL Roy Rolling May 2019 #18
Ten fingers, ten toes keithbvadu2 May 2019 #20
OUCH! calimary May 2019 #16
This message was self-deleted by its author Rainbow Droid May 2019 #14
People don't want to hear it Cosmocat May 2019 #7
Bread and circuses (especially on a 60 inch screen) are sufficient. LastDemocratInSC May 2019 #12
The Arabic numerals used in the Arabic world. keithbvadu2 May 2019 #10
Both forms of 'Arabic' numerals keithbvadu2 May 2019 #11
An interesting history of Arabic numerals keithbvadu2 May 2019 #13
The numerical system.... paleotn May 2019 #19

PJMcK

(21,916 posts)
2. Let's bring back Roman numerals
Sun May 5, 2019, 07:45 AM
May 2019

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)

LeftishBrit

(41,190 posts)
5. From 2004:
Sun May 5, 2019, 08:28 AM
May 2019
http://ceadserv1.nku.edu/longa/public_html/laughs/terrorist.html

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."

keithbvadu2

(36,362 posts)
9. Men are better at math because they can count to 21. Not true. Women can count to 22.
Sun May 5, 2019, 08:49 AM
May 2019

Men are better at math because they can count to 21.

Not true. Women can count to 22.

Response to LeftishBrit (Reply #5)

paleotn

(17,778 posts)
19. The numerical system....
Sun May 5, 2019, 10:05 AM
May 2019

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.

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