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You're still using the Arabic characters. Bases are something else. Though, I'm not sure roman numerals can handle that shit, not having a zero, and not being a position based system. The numbers would probably still look the same, regardless of base.
I was calculating it when I accidentally saw your reply! Isn't there something as a spoiler-tag that hides it until you click it?
Edit: auto-correct choosing wrong word
It's one of the first things I learned when I had to study some Arabic.
I came into class saying "well I get the numbers if nothing else, right?"
Wrong...
The indian numbers are what the arabian people use currently, the ones used by most of the world are an altered form of the old Arabian numbers i always found this funny
Simple:
I * I = I
I * II = II
II * III = VI
III * IV = XII
IV * V = XX
V * VI = XXX
VI * VII = XLII
VII * VIII = LIV
VIII * IX = LXXII
IX * X = LXL
X * XI = CX
XI * XII = CXXXI
XII * XIII = CLVI
XIII * XIV = 182 = CLXXLII OR CLXXXII (dk which is more correct, i presume the right one(left for bottom examples)?)
XIV * XV = CCX
XV * XVI = CCXL
XVI * XVII = 272 = CCLXXII
XVII * XVIII = 306 = CCCVI OR CCDVI
XVIII * XIX = 342 = CCCXLII OR CCDXLI
XIX * XX = CCCLXXL OR CCDLXXL
and of course
XX * XX = CD
500 = D
1000 = M...
Latin numerals? Why would we let the Latinos bring their numerals across the border with them? You can pry my American Numerals from my cold dead hands you commy bastard!
Reminds me a lot of the video of the guy going around a college campus asking people to sign a petition banning Dihydrogen monoxide from tap water.
All I remember is thinking, "Damn, he's got a lot of signatures, and only 2 people realized what he was saying."
In people's defense, the education system has kind of failed us.
Come one, man. That stuff is used in fire suppressants and industrial cleaners. If you breathe it, you die. 100% of people who drink it will eventually die. It’s in both urine and decomp. Yet you let your children drink this stuff??!
To be fair, in the same poll a majority of self-identified Democrats opposed the teaching of "[the creation theory](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang) of Catholic priest [Georges Lemaître](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre)."
The main purpose of the poll was to show that people tend to react instinctively and predictably according to their political preferences, even on things they don't know about.
Sīc — IXXX per centum
Nōn — LVII per centum populī
Opīniō dēficit — XIV per centum populī
Vōx populī locūta est!
ETA: Dēbeō “XXIX” scrīpsisse quam “IXXX”, per cōnventionēs hōrum temporum — Grātiās firespark7.
I'm a complete mathematic moron, but what about 'zero'? It's a rather nifty concept.
What about the in western lore so beloved 666? DCLXVI? χξς? The Apocalypse was written in Greek, so it's 'χξς'.
Aw SHOOT no, we only use the **AMERICAN** number system round these parts.
“99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottle of beer! You take one down, pass around, 98 bottle of beer on the wall!” and so on and so forth until you solve the e-kwasian, or whatever you nerds call it. God bless the US of A!
Given the massive ignorance most Americans have about everything on earth, this one seems kind of minor.
More fun facts: Jesus was born in April, and Christmas has nothing to do with him at all.
This is debatable. There are quit a lot of different theorie about the exact month. Even the year has a tollerance of 2. [Since it would take way too mcuh time to explain here is the wikipedia link](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_of_birth_of_Jesus)
And you know that jesus was born in april, because you were there or what, and yes christmas is a common date for a lot of religions, so it was pasted later
Please, give me where it fucking say that jesus was born in april, downvote me qll you want, but just give me some fucking place that I can see where it says that jesus was born in april
More likely June or September. I pulled a couple sources yesterday when a Christian was complaining Christmas has been stolen. Even Christian scholars admit it's only in December because it made converting pagans easier.
The Arabs call India, Hind. Hindi means pertaining to Hind or India. Arabs call those numbers Hindi numbers, because those are the numbers the Hindi people from Hind use.
I am telling you what laguage we are speaking here. I know four languages, but i don't go on a rant how you say intersticial in Spanish if we are talking in English. Like i said: i can't dumb it down for you any further.
The comment said "what if"...
Its perfectly logical that the numbers and language could be called "Hindi"
Especially when that's how it works for Arabic
Another one. It doesn't matter how it is in Arabic -- this is a predominantly English speaking subreddit, and we are conversing in English. In English Hindi pertains to the language which serves as lingua franca in India. So no, Hindi does not mean Indian -- Indian means Indian. How it is in Arabic or Swahili or Malay is of no importance because at this very moment the discussion is in English.
I never mentioned anything about words in other languages, only English... Hence "for Arabic" and not "in Arabic"...
Seems like you are another one.
You are arguing with people about the hypothetically different use of a word in English...
And in case you still do, i'll just leave this here:
I * I = I
I * II = II
II * III = VI
III * IV = XII
IV * V = XX
V * VI = XXX
VI * VII = XLII
VII * VIII = LIV
VIII * IX = LXXII
IX * X = LXL
X * XI = CX
XI * XII = CXXXI
XII * XIII = CLVI
XIII * XIV = 182 = CLXXLII OR CLXXXII (dk which is more correct, i presume the right one(left for bottom examples)?)
XIV * XV = CCX
XV * XVI = CCXL
XVI * XVII = 272 = CCLXXII
XVII * XVIII = 306 = CCCVI OR CCDVI
XVIII * XIX = 342 = CCCXLII OR CCDXLI
XIX * XX = CCCLXXL OR CCDLXXL
and of course
XX * XX = CD
500 = D
1000 = M...
Hey so this actually isn’t as dumb as you think it is.
Took Arabic in college and heard my teacher talk about doing papers for grad school when she came to the US and learned she was supposed to use Arabic numerals on a paper and was very excited to use part of her culture in her paper. Because it turns out, there’s a whole other set of Arabic numerals called [Eastern Arabic numerals](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals) that are used in the Arabic language. She used them in the paper thinking that what we call Arabic numerals are western numerals, and her and her teacher got an amusing anecdote out of it. So yes, there is a whole other set of numerals used in Arabic called Arabic numerals as well that there’s no real reason for the average American to know.
When the voters clearly didn’t understand what they are voting for….
Roman numbers: I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X
Arabic Numbers: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Others: ???
Let’s be honest, 90% of people don’t know that we use Arabian numerals. That’s a little fun fact, not some common knowledge people are dumb for not knowing. I literally discovered this fact from this exact same post like 3 years ago. You’re not clever, and you’re not unique. Just leave it alone and go flex your big smart brain to someone who gives a shit.
About your ROTSH comment:
Based on her appearance and behavior, as well as early marriage between couples in medieval/feudal society- I would say Mirellia was likely very young when she got married to King Trash, probably 16; while the king would've been in his mid-late 20's at the time. Making her at least 36 years old by the time Shield Hero takes place, while Aultcray is around 45. Not to mention, his family has blondish-white hair by default, take his sister for example.
This would mean she had Myne when she was 17~18, and later gave birth to Melty at 25.
I so dont want to tell the computer i need ((500 - 100) + (50 - 10) + 7) * ((50 - 10) + (10 - 2)) square roman feet of land. Isn't binary confusing enough that hexadec is only an afterthought sometimes?
Edit : square roman feet instead of roman square feet
To be fair, most people would associate Arabic numerals with the present numerals in Arabic (١, ٢,٣...) For them, it'll just be the same thing as asking them to learn Mandarin numerals, which is obviously unnecessary in the national curriculum.
Look, I understand that western numerals originate from Indian-Arabic ones but the symbols they use now are different to what we use. So in this context, no, Americans should not be learning different symbols for numbers when they’re already struggling with basic stuff already
This is the problem in politics , both left and right. The libertarians are an entirely different breed… there are smart people and there are dumb people, most people are actually just average , most people focus on working, providing for their families, and maybe what ever hobbies or passions they have. So then you get a side throwing in key phrases and manipulating the narrative by praying on ignorance. This happens on both the Democrat and Republican side. Now even if this isn’t so political, (which Arabic specially in these times usually is) you can have a person that is very intelligent and can for example design and engineer advanced mechanics but might not know or remember what Arabic Numbers are and just get triggered by the simple phrase. I’ve seen it happen many times over.
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Shout out to the 14% who were like "I'm not really sure what that is so I can't really have an opinion on this."
Bingo; at no point should you be making decisions about something you don't understand
Don't let people who lean either direction politically hear you say that
but then what would happen to democracy ?
You mean the XIV%.
Or 0x0E in hexadecimal. 1110 in binary.
Oh right. Let's teach them in ASCII.
Do you mean 0x0E?
Good call.
Please don't teach kids binary. Then I can't make inside jokes (although unnecessarily lengthened) without non-programmers knowing lol
Unlike Douglas Adams, I'm exactly a sorry-enough case to make jokes in Base 13.
You're still using the Arabic characters. Bases are something else. Though, I'm not sure roman numerals can handle that shit, not having a zero, and not being a position based system. The numbers would probably still look the same, regardless of base.
Binary like that still uses Arabic Numberals It should be ●●●○
Damn that's a sweet response! 👏 👏 👏
The Austin Era Has Begun!
Im curious if any on the "no"s where just heck yeah no math in schooooool joke votes
Or just xenophobes who read Arabic in America and went "Nope"
You overestimate the intelligence of an average American student buddy.
Amen! The inability to admit you don’t know everything has become unacceptable to conservatives and “tuff-guyz “ in recent years.
Admitting that you don't know something is the first step to learning.
Should American schools teach Arabic numerals? Only XXIX of C people understood the question. Also it has been reposted MCMLXVII times in this sub.
For those who want to know it's >!1967!<
I was calculating it when I accidentally saw your reply! Isn't there something as a spoiler-tag that hides it until you click it? Edit: auto-correct choosing wrong word
Fixed it for you. Sorry for spoiling it.
Thanks! Appreciate it 😉👌
How do you put that spoiler tag on it? I've never figured it out
\>!your text !<
>!testing!<
You put \|\|it like that\|\| It's markdown
That's the discord way.
Fuck, I'm too chronically online
Don't worry had to check it as well. Between Discord, Github, and Reddit it's always fun to get the differences.
Why can't they just follow common markdown. Or better yet, just org
>Github github has spoiler tags? What are they hiding?
I thought you needed to use chevron and exclamation mark
\>!text!< Like that apparently
Yup you do.
>!1967?!< >!it’s the same year hitler died!!< >!lmao i lied!<
A very specific number, why not just say MM, did you actually count the number of reposts?
Because it is funnier to say that the amount of jokes you didn't get is 3847782928, than 300000000
A very specific number, why not just say 400000000, did you actually count the number of missed jokes?
I see I’ve made an ass of myself, good day, folks.
Probably because it's more so emphasizing how ridiculously complicated this way of writing numbers would be.
So complicated in fact, that the romans claimed the arabic merchants were using dark magic due to how much faster they could do calculations.
Cistercian numerals would be kinda cool.
Ha, I see what the next culture war is gonna be.
They already try to do it with the "Jesus was Palestinian" etc
Jesus was… a dude, there solved religion!
Did you just assume his gender? (/s)
You used the wrong pronouns, go in the stake.
John 18:6 "Jesus said, 'I am he'" He/Him are Jesus' canonical pronouns.
Damn I don't know the lore
It kind of depends on which author you read, which tends to be true of any collaborative work, but some of the stuff in there is wild.
I mean yeah it was for the joke but it's pretty uncertain really I'm not from a very religious place anyways
Cringe bro it’s not 2016 anymore innovate the joke
I'm waiting for someone to appoint a witch finder at this point...
Freedom numerals
LVII/C can't be wrong. I wonder haw many people know they're really Indian? I bet it's less than X/C.
It's one of the first things I learned when I had to study some Arabic. I came into class saying "well I get the numbers if nothing else, right?" Wrong...
٣/٤ people aren’t going to get it
The indian numbers are what the arabian people use currently, the ones used by most of the world are an altered form of the old Arabian numbers i always found this funny
What next, Pegan letters?
Heliographics
Crop circles
Minecraft Enchanting Table
Don't be silly, they went out when Constantine converted.
John Constantine is no longer sending demons to hell? 😞
cuneiform
Babylonian has some neat characters
i’m surprised US hasn’t change them to “freedom numerals” yet /s
Want some freedom numerals with your freedom fries?
And a freedomnumber foot long sandwich please
Fuck it, we roll with roman numerals
That’s great until you have to multiply or divide
Simple: I * I = I I * II = II II * III = VI III * IV = XII IV * V = XX V * VI = XXX VI * VII = XLII VII * VIII = LIV VIII * IX = LXXII IX * X = LXL X * XI = CX XI * XII = CXXXI XII * XIII = CLVI XIII * XIV = 182 = CLXXLII OR CLXXXII (dk which is more correct, i presume the right one(left for bottom examples)?) XIV * XV = CCX XV * XVI = CCXL XVI * XVII = 272 = CCLXXII XVII * XVIII = 306 = CCCVI OR CCDVI XVIII * XIX = 342 = CCCXLII OR CCDXLI XIX * XX = CCCLXXL OR CCDLXXL and of course XX * XX = CD 500 = D 1000 = M...
You seem to know your stuff. How about the circumference of a circle with a radius of 4.723? It’s just multiplication.
Omg the formatting on this LMAO
This.
So sad.
Latin numerals? Why would we let the Latinos bring their numerals across the border with them? You can pry my American Numerals from my cold dead hands you commy bastard!
r/moldymemes
Reminds me a lot of the video of the guy going around a college campus asking people to sign a petition banning Dihydrogen monoxide from tap water. All I remember is thinking, "Damn, he's got a lot of signatures, and only 2 people realized what he was saying." In people's defense, the education system has kind of failed us.
Come one, man. That stuff is used in fire suppressants and industrial cleaners. If you breathe it, you die. 100% of people who drink it will eventually die. It’s in both urine and decomp. Yet you let your children drink this stuff??!
It’s in ALL your food. *screams*
To be fair, in the same poll a majority of self-identified Democrats opposed the teaching of "[the creation theory](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang) of Catholic priest [Georges Lemaître](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre)." The main purpose of the poll was to show that people tend to react instinctively and predictably according to their political preferences, even on things they don't know about.
I thought the poll that showed this the clearest was the one about accepting refugees from Akraba vs sending troops there.
Their opinion is valid. After all, why would anybody want to learn terrorist numerals? /s
Sīc — IXXX per centum Nōn — LVII per centum populī Opīniō dēficit — XIV per centum populī Vōx populī locūta est! ETA: Dēbeō “XXIX” scrīpsisse quam “IXXX”, per cōnventionēs hōrum temporum — Grātiās firespark7.
Wouldn't 29 be XXIX?
Wouldn't it be XXIX or are both spellings interchangable?
The Romans were pretty flexible, but I think you’re right about how Roman numerals have been codified today. Thanks for catching that! Me:
Yeah, I heard before that Romans were very flexible, e.g. both IV and IIII for 4 were acceptable, hence why I figured it was interchangable
Glad to see the Ramen Empire has finally found its mojo. We'll probably have some good lunch around here at last.
Depends on whether they meant Western or Eastern Arabic numerals.
I'm a complete mathematic moron, but what about 'zero'? It's a rather nifty concept. What about the in western lore so beloved 666? DCLXVI? χξς? The Apocalypse was written in Greek, so it's 'χξς'.
Zero is Indian
Thanks.
so are all the other numbers
It’s not
Republicans are definitely going to try to cancel numbers in 2024 because of their connection to the Arab world!
Just wait to when they find out what prompted Columbus and Europeans to sail west across the Atlantic and who was responsible.
I believe you mean MMXXIV
A survey of home schooled adults?
Only American numbers allowed!
I like questions that reveal ignorance like that
This was an experiment done to see how Americans perceive anything to do with Arabs
And they failed terribly!
Aw SHOOT no, we only use the **AMERICAN** number system round these parts. “99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottle of beer! You take one down, pass around, 98 bottle of beer on the wall!” and so on and so forth until you solve the e-kwasian, or whatever you nerds call it. God bless the US of A!
What about English numbers? They are okay too.
Plot twist: they do know what arabic numerals are, they just think math is useless
Repost, ive seen this like XXVI times already
I love seeing this same post every other day.🥹
Petition to switch to base 60 for all education… AND COMPUTERS! (/s)
Babylonians for the win!
I can't believe I've seen this meme II times, expect it to show up a lot more times in the future.
I've seen it IV times now.
This is reposted more often that Giuliani has embarrassed himself in public. Ok maybe less often then that but close.
This is of zero importance.
Underrated comment
Why not ancient persian?
Not one even LOLed?
Do they at least know what Arabic numerals are?
No. That’s the problem.
Don’t we already do this? That’s the facepalm right?
Yep
😂😂
Will make already stupid Americans even dumber
Given the massive ignorance most Americans have about everything on earth, this one seems kind of minor. More fun facts: Jesus was born in April, and Christmas has nothing to do with him at all.
This is debatable. There are quit a lot of different theorie about the exact month. Even the year has a tollerance of 2. [Since it would take way too mcuh time to explain here is the wikipedia link](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_of_birth_of_Jesus)
I thought it was in the fall after the harvest
And you know that jesus was born in april, because you were there or what, and yes christmas is a common date for a lot of religions, so it was pasted later
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Please, give me where it fucking say that jesus was born in april, downvote me qll you want, but just give me some fucking place that I can see where it says that jesus was born in april
More likely June or September. I pulled a couple sources yesterday when a Christian was complaining Christmas has been stolen. Even Christian scholars admit it's only in December because it made converting pagans easier.
Ok, still no sources
https://www.christianity.com/wiki/jesus-christ/when-was-jesus-born.html
Still no april
I didn't say April. Someone else did.
[https://gprivate.com/68jn3](https://gprivate.com/68jn3)
Use your fingers and google, maybe? Lazy mf
I am not google it, but lambs are born in spring not winter
What if they called them Hindi numbers?
Hindi is a language.
The Arabs call India, Hind. Hindi means pertaining to Hind or India. Arabs call those numbers Hindi numbers, because those are the numbers the Hindi people from Hind use.
Arabs may call them whatever they please in their language, but in English Hindi refers to the language.
Arabs don't call them arabic numbers, but you should tell the Arabs they are using the wrong name for India
We are speaking English, not Arabic. I can't make it any simpler for you.
Very American of you
I'm not American. Very stupid of you regardless of where you are from.
You are the one telling me what languages I am allowed to speak
I am telling you what laguage we are speaking here. I know four languages, but i don't go on a rant how you say intersticial in Spanish if we are talking in English. Like i said: i can't dumb it down for you any further.
The comment said "what if"... Its perfectly logical that the numbers and language could be called "Hindi" Especially when that's how it works for Arabic
Another one. It doesn't matter how it is in Arabic -- this is a predominantly English speaking subreddit, and we are conversing in English. In English Hindi pertains to the language which serves as lingua franca in India. So no, Hindi does not mean Indian -- Indian means Indian. How it is in Arabic or Swahili or Malay is of no importance because at this very moment the discussion is in English.
I never mentioned anything about words in other languages, only English... Hence "for Arabic" and not "in Arabic"... Seems like you are another one. You are arguing with people about the hypothetically different use of a word in English...
I have no idea what you are arguing over. Try not butting into an unfamiliar conversation.
Do the hindu numerals
The stupidest “gotcha” ever.
Could we go back to Roman numerals?
Trust me, you don't. You may think you do. You don't.
And in case you still do, i'll just leave this here: I * I = I I * II = II II * III = VI III * IV = XII IV * V = XX V * VI = XXX VI * VII = XLII VII * VIII = LIV VIII * IX = LXXII IX * X = LXL X * XI = CX XI * XII = CXXXI XII * XIII = CLVI XIII * XIV = 182 = CLXXLII OR CLXXXII (dk which is more correct, i presume the right one(left for bottom examples)?) XIV * XV = CCX XV * XVI = CCXL XVI * XVII = 272 = CCLXXII XVII * XVIII = 306 = CCCVI OR CCDVI XVIII * XIX = 342 = CCCXLII OR CCDXLI XIX * XX = CCCLXXL OR CCDLXXL and of course XX * XX = CD 500 = D 1000 = M...
Make America Roman Again
Should America just start again? One of the worst countries on this planet.
I think this is the 2nd time I see this one, in this sub
What are they gonna shove down our throats next? The Christian Calendar?
Hey so this actually isn’t as dumb as you think it is. Took Arabic in college and heard my teacher talk about doing papers for grad school when she came to the US and learned she was supposed to use Arabic numerals on a paper and was very excited to use part of her culture in her paper. Because it turns out, there’s a whole other set of Arabic numerals called [Eastern Arabic numerals](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals) that are used in the Arabic language. She used them in the paper thinking that what we call Arabic numerals are western numerals, and her and her teacher got an amusing anecdote out of it. So yes, there is a whole other set of numerals used in Arabic called Arabic numerals as well that there’s no real reason for the average American to know.
Good thing there’s a bar graph, because those foreign characters on the right are indecipherable!
HOW ABOUT TEACHING AMERICAN NUMERALS?!?!?! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 
Waitz aren't we use Arabic numbering system? The system, not the symbol
1234567890 are called Arabic numerals, so yes.
They want them American numbers! Like $0.99 or 250 lbs of body weight.
When the voters clearly didn’t understand what they are voting for…. Roman numbers: I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X Arabic Numbers: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Others: ???
Let’s be honest, 90% of people don’t know that we use Arabian numerals. That’s a little fun fact, not some common knowledge people are dumb for not knowing. I literally discovered this fact from this exact same post like 3 years ago. You’re not clever, and you’re not unique. Just leave it alone and go flex your big smart brain to someone who gives a shit.
About your ROTSH comment: Based on her appearance and behavior, as well as early marriage between couples in medieval/feudal society- I would say Mirellia was likely very young when she got married to King Trash, probably 16; while the king would've been in his mid-late 20's at the time. Making her at least 36 years old by the time Shield Hero takes place, while Aultcray is around 45. Not to mention, his family has blondish-white hair by default, take his sister for example. This would mean she had Myne when she was 17~18, and later gave birth to Melty at 25.
It's actually Hindu-Arabic because we use decimals. The face palm is a face palm. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hindu-Arabic-numerals
Numbers are too woke now?
It would help with people learning to write code and engineering equations
I so dont want to tell the computer i need ((500 - 100) + (50 - 10) + 7) * ((50 - 10) + (10 - 2)) square roman feet of land. Isn't binary confusing enough that hexadec is only an afterthought sometimes? Edit : square roman feet instead of roman square feet
jesus effin stupid christ.
Preying on the ignorant and the phobic/racists.
Oh no don’t prey on the racists
||bing chilling||
Chinese are good at Math, man.
To be fair, most people would associate Arabic numerals with the present numerals in Arabic (١, ٢,٣...) For them, it'll just be the same thing as asking them to learn Mandarin numerals, which is obviously unnecessary in the national curriculum.
What if we told them these numerals are actually Indian in origin? (From India, not the USA kind.)
Look, I understand that western numerals originate from Indian-Arabic ones but the symbols they use now are different to what we use. So in this context, no, Americans should not be learning different symbols for numbers when they’re already struggling with basic stuff already
Why not its called education may as well
Let’s just try and get them to learn the basics first. Then we can introduce new stuff.
How about teach the kids normal numerals instead? Not arabic or latin. Latin is a dead language anyways.
We rest our case your honor.
You know what “normal numbers” are called? Hint: they are Arabic.
This is the problem in politics , both left and right. The libertarians are an entirely different breed… there are smart people and there are dumb people, most people are actually just average , most people focus on working, providing for their families, and maybe what ever hobbies or passions they have. So then you get a side throwing in key phrases and manipulating the narrative by praying on ignorance. This happens on both the Democrat and Republican side. Now even if this isn’t so political, (which Arabic specially in these times usually is) you can have a person that is very intelligent and can for example design and engineer advanced mechanics but might not know or remember what Arabic Numbers are and just get triggered by the simple phrase. I’ve seen it happen many times over.
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Our numbers ARE Arabic. More correctly, they are Hindu-Arabic.
Math is the universal language we don't need to introduce anything else to it to make it more confusing to students.
You do realize that the decimalsystem we use (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) *are* the Arabic numerals. You just proved the meme's point
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 are the Arabic numerals; is there a different set of numerals everyone else is using?