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Last edited Thu Mar 25, 2021, 08:02 AM - Edit history (1)
Now as I mentioned I work with a lot of young teamsters that vote GQP.
Qanon teamster- That bitch of a Vice President is mandating that our kids be taught Arabic math.
Duncanpup a teamster for 34 years holding a Union card. - you mean like the numerals 0 -10
Qanon teamster- Im not having this bullshit taught to my kids.
Duncanpup- Bro werent you a F.O in Marine corps as former infantry I knew a couple of arty dudes. So you guys just used American math.
I turned to a friend and asked where in the fuck do they come up with this shit.
Diamond_Dog
(32,277 posts)donco
(1,548 posts)Central States Organizer WHO enjoys VERY MUCH his VERY PENSION much energized tell them 2+2 equals=4.
hlthe2b
(102,641 posts)to laugh. Healthier to laugh, though, I suppose.
ProfessorGAC
(65,581 posts)Tell them to do math with roman numerals.
But, don't translate to the numerals we know. They can't! X*L = D? How?
One has to know X is 10 (in ARABIC numerals) and so on.
But, they're too dumb to grasp that concept.
PJMcK
(22,110 posts)There is no zero.
ProfessorGAC
(65,581 posts)Given the colosseum, the pantheon, aqueducts, & roads, scholars are quite certain romans had numerals for math, & didn't use roman numerals except for buildings & documents.
Makes sense.
griloco
(832 posts)Captain Zero
(6,896 posts)Otherwise they'd be living under the 7.25/hr bridge.
Chipper Chat
(9,720 posts)multigraincracker
(32,807 posts)Death for getting or giving an abortion.
Duncanpup
(12,991 posts)The GQP talibangilest want to take us to
flor-de-jasmim
(2,128 posts)twodogsbarking
(10,040 posts)Binary code?
wnylib
(21,871 posts)They should give up their computers, then.
diverdownjt
(703 posts)exactly
twodogsbarking
(10,040 posts)JFC pick one.
central scrutinizer
(11,679 posts)Hindu mathematicians developed the place value system which required the invention of zero. (The Mayans independently invented zero and place value). If you want to trigger your RWNJ tell him his kids are learning Indian math as a tribute to Kamala Harris.
wnylib
(21,871 posts)to the Arabic/Asian Indian zero based math comes from those Mexicans that their orange hero warned them about.
Dr. Strange
(25,933 posts)That's nothing.
mcar
(42,490 posts)AllaN01Bear
(19,074 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,626 posts)CaptainTruth
(6,632 posts)AllaN01Bear
(19,074 posts)and french fries were invented in belgium, not france . and it is the way the fries are cooked . they are flashed fried in hot cooking oil.
diverdownjt
(703 posts)keithbvadu2
(37,142 posts)Are English numbers Arabic?
The numbers English speakers use every day, known as Arabic numerals, were developed in the Maghreb during the 10th century. They made their way into Europe through Arab scholars in Al-Andalus (modern-day Andalusia in Spain), hence they are called Arabic numerals.
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Why do we call them Arabic numerals?
The Hindu-Arabic or Indo-Arabic numerals were invented by mathematicians in India. Persian and Arabic mathematicians called them "Hindu numerals". Later they came to be called "Arabic numerals" in Europe because they were introduced to the West by Arab merchants.
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TheRickles
(2,123 posts)If "X" is your hourly wage this year, and your union contract guarantees a 5% COLA, what will you hourly wage be next year?
Arabic math comes in handy!
The word "algebra" comes from the Arabic "al jabr", the reunion of broken parts, ie. the healing of a broken bone. So the great basketball player Kareem Abdul Jabbar's last name is actually the same word as "algebra", and he solved some pretty tough equations on court. Often words that start with "al-" are Arabic in origin, as it is the definite article, "the": alcohol, alchemy, alfalfa, Alcatraz - but not Alabama!
mwooldri
(10,307 posts)sarge43
(28,947 posts)That insidious poison, the low end of the speed spectrum. I'd hazard that former Marine lived on it.
The quickest way to destroy the US armed forces is cut off its coffee supply for about week.
Duncanpup
(12,991 posts)sarge43
(28,947 posts)Instant coffee is Satan's snot.
question everything
(47,660 posts)appleannie1
(5,086 posts)róisín_dubh
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Looks something like this (1-10). I forgot, they had zero too, but I can't make the symbol for it.
Evolve Dammit
(16,875 posts)it up, gets angrier and passes it along to anyone who will listen. No reality required; just a mutual hatred of anyone "different" than themselves, which is essentially everyone. And so they stay in a constant state of lather and froth, until they either snap or die of whatever.
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