Fact check: Is Mamdani introducing Arabic numerals to New York schools?
Fact check: Is Mamdani introducing Arabic numerals to New York schools?
Another post from betting market company Polymarket read: "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals." The post has almost 14 million views.
I just checked with my local school, and they're not just making them learn these arabic numbers, they're forcing them to learn AL GEBRA!!! Sounds like foreign nonsense to me, so I'm starting a petition to have the head fired, and possibly flogged.
You should check with your local schools too. Keep this policically correct woke DEI rubbish away from our kids!
In universities for computer science they must learn the teachings of the muslim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi, that's disgusting.
I knew the etymology was Arabic, but I was just curious to look up the etymology. Al jabr is (the Latinized version of) the original.
i heard he'll teach kids the "latin" alphabet instead of Amerian one😡
I dont understand this. When I was in Palestine, they definitely used different numerals.
Like, I guess they invented base 10? Or math? But the characters they use for numbers are absolutely different
Basically, what we call "Arabic Numerals", including the number 0, have their origin in India. Europe got them from Arabic scholars, and therefore called them "Arabic".
The main factor is the decimal system of writing and having the concept of a zero in contrast to the odd, additive and subtractive writing of the Roman numerals, which didn't even know a 0, and made multiplication a pain and division nearly impossible.
What glyph is actually used for a one, be it a 1 or a ١, is absolutely secondary.
I think your confusion is the other side of what the article was discussing.
The problem is, there have been a lot of number systems in the past. The one we currently use is based on the Arabic system. In common usage you would simply call them numbers. But in a technical sense, to distinguish from other numbering systems past and present, they're also called Arabic Numerals because that's their origin.
Clearly this ignores the fact Arabic is still around and using real Arabic numbers and that is both confusing and maybe problematic. But I think the technical reason it sticks around is to acknowledge their source and have a more specific term when there is a need
Looking at Wikipedia, we're talking about western Arabic numerals in Europe/USA (TIL). Did you use one of the versions listed here as Eastern arabic numerals? Briefly reading the history, eastern is more common across modern Arabic regions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals
In Germany, we have a right-wing party en par with the US Republicans: The AfD. Just as Nazi, just as nuts.
Some time ago, someone riled them up with the "Did you know they teach Arabic numerals in school now?", and quite a few of them blew a lid...
Well, the dihydrogen monoxide that is in your Zuchini is literally an industrial solvent!
Have you seen what dihydrogen monoxide does to pure, strong iron?!? It corrodes iron unbelievably fast! And people just.....consume it in most of their "healthy" foods!
Wake up, sheeple! Stop drinking dihydrogen monoxide!
/s - this message brought to you by Brawndo, the thirst mutilator
FWIW this is by far less dangerous and aggressive than oxygen, which caused the first global mass extinction when it started to amass in earth's atmosphere (and plays a major role in the corrosion of iron you mentioned).
And yet people tell you to breathe in and out...
And stop plants from drinking it too!
Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes.
My son just told me there is a complete wiki about DHMO. Something I'll investigate later...
zuchini is green squash now
So, there WAS an onion (or similar) article stating exactly this like the day after he won. So it looks like some of these idiots just ate the onion
Whole thing is just media hyping up an obvious prank so that the stupidest people start freaking the fuck out, which gets more media attention, which makes us click on links way out here in backwater Lemmy.
This is the uroboros of media that has wrecked our whole society, where all of our impressions about just about anything are being dictated by the smallest, most ridiculous outlier reactions. Remember the kitty litter boxes in schools?
This is what launched flat-eartherism and trumpism and the whole massive "incel movement" that has become a tidal-wave of depressing idiocy, which get more attention for being so disgusting and stupid, which makes people on the other extreme end of the bell-curve over-react, which gets more attention, which leaves normal, passive readers thinking this is how people are really interacting and treating each other, which leads to them also taking up radical or stupid ideas about the world.
It's not that The Onion can't compete with reality, its that The Onion can't compete the vast media empire built on deliberately turning every possible unusual reaction or hot take from random nobodies into headline news. Before panic was monetized, most outlets ignored pranks.
I know several ignorant relatives who would seethe with rage seeing that headline...
An easy way to sort out the idiots who probably did not learn Arabic numerals in school, and therefor are so useless they can only be employd as MAGA heads...
Next they are going to find out they are learning other Arabic topics like al-Gebra.
Or about Mr. Al Kwarizmi (Algorithm).
How about Brahmagupta's quadratic equation
Fun fact, what we call Arabic numerals are not the numerals used in Arabic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals
Nice, didn't know this! According to the article "The numeral system originates from an ancient Indian numeral system," so i guess confusing names are a feauture of numerical symbols, and not a bug.
The ones we use are the Western Arabic numerals
The Onion really is competing with reality to come up with good headlines.
No, ain't no way, how can this be NOT the onion ?! Come on ! 😂
Newsweek
Jesus Christ, people are fucking stupid.
Again? They do this whenever a nonwhite person is voted into office.
Be ready for a post-victory avalanche of hit pieces against Zohran, with the usual right-wing tactic of absurd disinformation. It doesn't need to be anywhere close to the truth, it just needs to be good at rage baiting low information/gullible people.
Arabic Numerals have taken over the world! When will this madness stop? /s
Especially that diabolic number "zero". It is a pure Arab invention. The Romans did fine without it. Then the Arabs introduced zero and we know what happened with the Roman Empire. Now, zeros can be found everywhere - they can even hide in computers. America should really exzerminate these zeros befote it is too late!!
If you want to really scare JD Vance, the more proper term is probably Hindu-Arabic numerals.
And then in astronomy, students are being forced to learn the Arabic names of stars (like Sirius, Deneb and Betelgeuse).
Next he'll be forcing us all to drink dihydrogen oxide, a chemical that's known to be fatal to humans under certain conditions!
A friend of mine ingested a ton of it and died. They found him at the bottom of a lake
They literally use that shit to power steam engines! Now imagine what it does to your insides. Nasty, nasty stuff.
I'm sorry but as a technicality none of the power used in a steam engine is derived from the dihydrogen monoxide. The chemical compound is used as a medium to turn thermal energy into kinetic energy. The thermal energy, likewise, is usually obtained from another source such as chemical, nuclear, tidal, or photovoltaic.
Dont forget it is a key component in both hydrochloric acid and making nuclear power plants operate.
Ragebaiting at its finest 🤌
The fact that this article needs to exist is so sad.
Newsweek is seriously trying to take a dry and completely humorless approach on this "story"
:-\
The left posts the meme to point out that there are people ignorant enough to believe that nonsense. I did it yesterday. The right posts the meme because they are ignorant enough to believe it or are rage baiting people who are ignorant enough to believe it. We are not the same.
Get me the fuck off this planet.
My god, the red conservatives and the blue conservatives are so incredibly hysterical.
Fortunately, Donald Jesus (republican vesion) Trump will sign executive order banning Arabic numerals nation wide. Thanks to a political contribution from Disney, we will all be forced to use the Predator number system to help movie tickets for Badlands. All computer systems will have 1 month to update.
I sure fucking hope so. They're way more common than the Roman ones.
And have you ever tried multiplication and division with Roman numerals? We tried it in math once. There is actually an algorithm for multiplication, but it is a pain in the ass. And division? You've got to subtract and count...
The numbers are still the same, just how they are written is different... 🤨
You voted for this! reeeEEEEEEE
Jesus Christ, people are fucking idiots.
One of my favourite episodes of Veep had this very thing
What until they hear about his birth certificate.
It's a joke, right?
RIGHT?
by using a term that some readers may find unfamiliar even though it refers to the numbers Americans already use
I dont understand this. When I was in Palestine, they definitely used different numerals.
Like, I guess they invented base 10? Or math? But the characters they use for numbers are absolutely different
so the numerals we used actually originate from India, first they got adopted by Arabic mathematicians who then brought them to Europe where people started mistakenly calling them "Arabic numerals"
Ok, well, this article is trying to call people dumb for not understanding a concept that is incredibly confusing to everyone
What they invented was positional numbers, like one digit for hundreds, one for tens, one for units. Of course you need a notation for zero for this to work, so it's not as obvious as it seems (see roman numbers for another well known system).
Lmao, I love this kind of stuff. It makes dumb people so angry
I love that too, but I feel like we have to make them smart and not angry :(
You can't fix stupid
You cannot teach a pig to sing. Well, you can teach, but don't expect it to work...
Angering dumb people makes them vote. And they vote real dumb
They were angry before this and they'll have been angry if this was never mentioned.
For those willing to learn, there's an opportunity for a teachable moment