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bennnn Joined Feb 2007 Posts 21458 EE 100% (415) NC, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 9:07:50 PM EDT [#1] Quote History Originally Posted By DayandNight1701: For those of you going Modern numbers(the way the entire world uses them) are based on Arabic numbers. The more you know. View Quote We know. That's the joke.

AeroE I Was Free Born Joined Nov 2000 Posts 98725 EE 100% (2) USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 9:08:11 PM EDT [Last Edit: AeroE] [#2] Originally Posted By 7empest: WTAF Are people really that dumb? View Quote You should have polled Arfcom GD before commenting.
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arowneragain Director of Marketing and Ad Revenue Joined Nov 2003 Posts 87291 EE 100% (22) TN, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 9:08:22 PM EDT [#3] Quote History Originally Posted By Bohr_Adam: I lol'd. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quote History Originally Posted By Bohr_Adam: Originally Posted By fttam: Originally Posted By 7empest: WTAF Are people really that dumb? LXXXVII% of them are I lol'd. chuckles sensibly

TxLewis Wsbptkt Now, more than ever. Joined Mar 2001 Posts 56286 EE 100% (20) TX, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 9:13:05 PM EDT [#4] Quadratic equation is going to be a bitch using Roman numerals...
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Windustsearch Member Joined Mar 2005 Posts 38437 EE 0% (0) WA, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 9:15:12 PM EDT [#5] Yes, tons of people are dumb enough to believe a Twitter poll.

testify4 ARFCOM callsign: Hoodlum Joined Mar 2010 Posts 10539 EE 0% (0) CO, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 9:16:33 PM EDT [#6] Quote History Originally Posted By FredMan: We want Roman numerals! View Quote Van Halen's MCMLXXXIV has always been helpful a helpful teaching device for me!

Ninjaman ARFCOM Callsign: Fester Joined Jul 2009 Posts 1762 EE 0% (0) FL, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 9:18:30 PM EDT [#7]

Isenhelm Joined Mar 2008 Posts 23537 EE 100% (3) USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 9:22:37 PM EDT [Last Edit: Isenhelm] [#8] Hindu numerals https://worldhistoryedu.com/history-and-major-facts-about-the-hindu-arabic-numerals/

917-30 Member Joined Dec 2015 Posts 10744 EE 0% (0) TN, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 9:22:39 PM EDT [#9] Quote History Originally Posted By TARFUN: While they are at it, they should ban DiHydrogen Monoxide. That shit destroys billions of dollars worth of material and kills thousands of people each year. View Quote Ban it! That shit makes my stuff rust.
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Spiffums We call em Boogers in the South Joined Mar 2008 Posts 19711 EE 0% (0) TN, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 9:25:28 PM EDT [#10] Is it really sad that I had to google what Arabic numerals were? Been a LONG time since I had a math class lol.
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gearsmithy Member Joined Feb 2015 Posts 2451 EE 100% (11) CA, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 9:25:29 PM EDT [#11] Quote History Originally Posted By TARFUN: While they are at it, they should ban DiHydrogen Monoxide. That shit destroys billions of dollars worth of material and kills thousands of people each year. View Quote You think that's bad? Wait till you hear about hydroxalic acid!!

Blind_Squirrel Joined Jan 2014 Posts 10115 EE 100% (7) MO, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 9:25:30 PM EDT [#12] And they vote...

Bohr_Adam Subversive Orchestrator and "Kool Kid" Joined Feb 2001 Posts 139433 EE 0% (0) VA, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 9:27:12 PM EDT [#13] Quote History Originally Posted By Isenhelm: Hindu numerals https://worldhistoryedu.com/history-and-major-facts-about-the-hindu-arabic-numerals/ View Quote
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DayandNight1701 Joined Feb 2023 Posts 2192 EE 0% (0) USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 9:30:05 PM EDT [#14] Quote History Originally Posted By bennnn: We know. That's the joke. View Quote 1/2 of the country is OK with the last 4 years and are tripple jabbed. I'm willing to bet most of those here didn't know that.

JAG2955 Member Joined Jun 2013 Posts 11724 EE 100% (42) MT, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 9:31:33 PM EDT [#15] Quote History Originally Posted By FredMan: We want Roman numerals! View Quote Reject modernity. Embrace tradition.

Grendel-OK Woodchuck Joined Feb 2013 Posts 8817 EE 100% (8) OK, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 9:32:37 PM EDT [#16] This has to be one of those 4-Chan troll missions, right?

Colt1860 Member Joined Jul 2005 Posts 30548 EE 100% (1) USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 9:33:42 PM EDT [Last Edit: Colt1860] [#17] Numbers were invented by Satan to test our faith. ps - we spend more on education than any other country
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Rockdoc Saved by the Enola Gay Joined May 2001 Posts 4216 EE 100% (113) AZ, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 9:42:55 PM EDT [#18] Quote History Originally Posted By FireMissionDivision: What have the ~~Romans~~ Arabs ever done for us? View Quote Zero
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Posted: 8/26/2024 9:45:35 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By DayandNight1701:

1/2 of the country is OK with the last 4 years and are tripple jabbed. I'm willing to bet most of those here didn't know that.

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Originally Posted By DayandNight1701:

Originally Posted By bennnn:

We know.

That's the joke.

1/2 of the country is OK with the last 4 years and are tripple jabbed. I'm willing to bet most of those here didn't know that.

You'd be wrong assuming that.

You can get proof by adding a poll to your OP and including that in the thread title.

Beretta_Jerry Joined Dec 2003 Posts 13124 EE 0% (0) AZ, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 9:46:06 PM EDT [#20] Reminds me of the guy with the mike going around asking people if we should end women's suffrage. Most agreed it was a good idea (not knowing the definition of the term)

L_JE Fetch my calculator! Joined Apr 2009 Posts 61529 EE 0% (0) AL, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 9:48:57 PM EDT [#21] Quote History Originally Posted By DayandNight1701: For those of you going Modern numbers(the way the entire world uses them) are based on Arabic numbers. The more you know. View Quote Get the fuck out of here with that talk of Satan. Satan! SATAN! OUT!

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Posted: 8/26/2024 9:49:05 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By Beretta_Jerry:
Reminds me of the guy with the mike going around asking people if we should end women's suffrage. Most agreed it was a good idea (not knowing the definition of the term)

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Was just coming here to post this!! But will add link:

Man Show S1E01 “Stop Womens’ Suffrage” Skit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2201BYp6HE

If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.

flyhack72 Joined Nov 2008 Posts 35261 EE 100% (1) FM, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 9:51:18 PM EDT [#23] Today I told students to turn to Roman Numeral 13. They didn’t have a clue. So I told them to turn to page XIII. I spelled it out for them. That’s Gen Z for you…

Frank_B Grouchy Old Fart Joined May 2013 Posts 37034 EE 0% (0) TN, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 9:54:14 PM EDT [#24]
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madmathew Member Joined Oct 2006 Posts 49504 EE 100% (7) MI, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 9:54:39 PM EDT [#25] Quote History Originally Posted By maxima2: Peak America has passed and it was good. View Quote It was great growing up in that world but I hate that my kids are getting handed a bag of shit in comparison. I am raising them to be hard/strong men tho. I figure they're going to need to be.

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Posted: 8/26/2024 10:23:47 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By Lexington:

And the other half understand what the median is.

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Originally Posted By Lexington:

Originally Posted By BB:

Originally Posted By mooreshawnm:
Yes. Yes they are.

Wearing this one out LOL
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And the other half understand what the median is.

But IQ is a Bell Curve which is a Normal Distribution, so the median = mean = mode.

if you were on the right side of the curve or even in the middle, you'd know that.

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Shazbat Joined Jan 2001 Posts 9573 EE 0% (0) NH, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 10:31:22 PM EDT [#27] I have no need for that new wave Roman mumbo jumbo, strictly use cuneiform.

thesquidliest Curmudgeonly Master Chief (Ret.) Joined Apr 2016 Posts 3107 EE 100% (3) TX, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 10:35:40 PM EDT [#28] Quote History Originally Posted By 1Andy2: I'm convinced that IQs have actually dropped in the past 10 years. That's not a joke. View Quote Aliens - Did IQ's just drop sharply while I was away? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay80wwQ_e2k
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Lonesome_Dave Member Joined Dec 2011 Posts 5884 EE 0% (0) TX, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 10:37:48 PM EDT [#29] Quote History Originally Posted By 1Andy2: I'm convinced that IQs have actually dropped in the past 10 years. That's not a joke. View Quote Wasn't there another thread about how fluoride in tap water is lowering the IQ of everyone who drinks it? Attached File

Chaingun Indelible in the Hippocampus, the Sylvan Joined Nov 2000 Posts 94400 EE 100% (7) CA, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 10:40:00 PM EDT [#30] Slide rules rule!!! yeah!
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Mall-Ninja ........"BANG"........ Joined Dec 2003 Posts 44819 EE 0% (0) TX, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 10:40:24 PM EDT [#31] This a fucking gotcha test.
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Posted: 8/26/2024 10:42:06 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By Firearmsenthusiast:

The Islamic Golen Age was a thing... until they fucked it all up and turned it into the shithole we all know ow today. It's downfall is well studied. What was the the most advanced society in the world, leaders in mathematics, science, medicine and astronomy devolved into tribal warfare and desolation.

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Originally Posted By Firearmsenthusiast:

Originally Posted By Bohr_Adam:

Lol. Que?

The Islamic Golen Age was a thing... until they fucked it all up and turned it into the shithole we all know ow today. It's downfall is well studied. What was the the most advanced society in the world, leaders in mathematics, science, medicine and astronomy devolved into tribal warfare and desolation.

No, but the countries and people they conquered were. That is until these conquered people were forced to follow sharia law

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"Mitch the democrat bitch"

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TNgan Joined Aug 2012 Posts 1238 EE 100% (10) NV, USA	Posted: 8/26/2024 10:42:37 PM EDT [#33] Arabic numeral came from the Indian numeral, and they still called the Indian number in Arabic to this date. FYI, the Thai and Burmese numerals also came from the Indian number.

amos1909 America, turn to God because only He can save us! Joined Apr 2008 Posts 31262 EE 100% (337) TN, USA	Posted: 8/27/2024 12:42:49 AM EDT [#34]
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Posted: 8/27/2024 12:48:53 AM EDT

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Originally Posted By Rockdoc:

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Originally Posted By Rockdoc:

Originally Posted By FireMissionDivision:
What have the ~~Romans~~ Arabs ever done for us?

Zero

I get that joke, not because of anything I ever learned in a public school, but here of all places.

Arfcom GD is a better education than public school, and that's fucked up, man.

AEROMechanic Callsign: Speedboat Joined Mar 2014 Posts 17283 EE 100% (36) FL, USA	Posted: 8/27/2024 12:52:21 AM EDT [#36] Quote History Originally Posted By CFletch: twitter is an echo chamber of retardism View Quote So is Reddit for that matter.
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glock27bill Joined Dec 2007 Posts 8696 EE 0% (0) VA, USA	Posted: 8/27/2024 1:19:20 AM EDT [#37] How large is the sample size of that poll?

MikeSSS Joined Dec 2004 Posts 21340 EE 0% (0) TX, USA	Posted: 8/27/2024 2:01:48 AM EDT [#38] Trolling without a motor?

akchef Joined Nov 2013 Posts 327 EE 100% (43) AK, USA	Posted: 8/27/2024 3:18:03 AM EDT [#39] Quote History Originally Posted By Procyon: And their vote counts the same as ours. View Quote And that's exactly why I think people should have to take an IQ test to be allowed to vote.

Bigger_Hammer We are the Knights who say Fuuuuu! Joined Sep 2004 Posts 51928 EE 100% (628) TX, USA	Posted: 8/27/2024 6:56:27 AM EDT [#40] We need to stamp out those Middle Eastern Sharia numerals infiltrating our God fearing American Christian schools. Make Arabic #'s Go Away Bigger_Hammer
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Posted: 8/27/2024 8:27:10 AM EDT

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Originally Posted By BB:

Wearing this one out LOL
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Originally Posted By BB:

Originally Posted By mooreshawnm:
Yes. Yes they are.

Wearing this one out LOL
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSjoHcEN-TIO5Y7CzlK3PBj8y-kBScD0a0S0Q&s

I once posted something similar here and had someone vociferously argue.

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Posted: 8/27/2024 8:32:15 AM EDT

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Originally Posted By AR4U:
I once posted something similar here and had someone vociferously argue.

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Originally Posted By AR4U:

Originally Posted By BB:

Originally Posted By mooreshawnm:
Yes. Yes they are.

Wearing this one out LOL
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSjoHcEN-TIO5Y7CzlK3PBj8y-kBScD0a0S0Q&s

I once posted something similar here and had someone vociferously argue.

I mean, Carlin was a comedian so he isn’t going for accuracy, but if you don’t see how that statement is mathematically problematic you might be on the lower side of the spectrum.

GarandM1 Joined Apr 2007 Posts 64522 EE 0% (0) UT, USA	Posted: 8/27/2024 8:33:59 AM EDT [#43] Quote History Originally Posted By FredMan: We want Roman numerals! View Quote Et Iterum Americae Magna!

d16man pickin' and grinnin' Joined Feb 2013 Posts 93626 EE 100% (55) SC, USA	Posted: 8/27/2024 8:39:47 AM EDT [#44] Quote History Originally Posted By TheLookingGlass: They should teach in binary to counter all the non binary types. 01!!! 01!!!! View Quote
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DenJ Joined Dec 2013 Posts 661 EE 0% (0) TX, USA	Posted: 8/27/2024 8:43:16 AM EDT [#45] Quote History Originally Posted By fttam: LXXXVII% of them are View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quote History Originally Posted By fttam: Originally Posted By 7empest: WTAF Are people really that dumb? LXXXVII% of them are Well done sir.

Chris_1522 Weird gun collector Joined May 2005 Posts 21358 EE 100% (16) MO, USA	Posted: 8/27/2024 8:50:37 AM EDT [#46] DONT NEED NUN THEM ARAB NUMBERS IN MY SKOOL WE TEACH AMERICA NUMBERS HERE GOD DAM IT -Posted from Wal-Mart mobility scooter
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wganz Darwin's little helper. Joined Apr 2004 Posts 25206 EE 100% (21) TX, USA	Posted: 8/27/2024 8:50:56 AM EDT [#47] Originally Posted By 7empest: WTAF Are people really that dumb? View Quote Must not be trending that much or you would have posted an example tweet.
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7empest A tempest must be true to its nature. Joined Sep 2021 Posts 7995 EE 0% (0) USA	Posted: 8/27/2024 9:19:26 AM EDT [#48] Quote History Originally Posted By wganz: Must not be trending that much or you would have posted an example tweet. View Quote 56% of americans don't think we should teach Arabic numbers in us public schools... what do you think? — Doc ? (@DocAtCDI) August 26, 2024
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von_landstuhl President's 100, US Army Distinguished Rifleman Joined Dec 2004 Posts 23357 EE 100% (4) OH, USA	Posted: 8/27/2024 9:27:48 AM EDT [#50] Ironically, Arabs don't use Arabic numbers.
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