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Just wait until they find out public schools are giving their children dihydrogen monoxide without asking for parental approval.
- Found in acid rain and cancer cells.
  
  It's found everywhere. They've detected DHMO even in the deepest parts of the ocean, and it's been estimated that every single human being alive has at least some of it in their bloodstream. We're fucked.
- The most dangerous substance in our modern world
  
  Literally everyone who consumed it ends up dying.
  
  I hear that every single person who drowned with the Titanic was later found to have elevated concentrations of dihydrogen monoxide in their bodies. Coincidence? I think not.
- Just wait until they find out public schools are giving their children dihydrogen monoxide without asking for parental approval.
  You can't give dihydrogen monoxide to children. Fish fuck in it when there are large quantities of it.
- Everyone should be aware of the dangers of DHMO! Millions of people die every year from it!
  Educate yourself at http://www.DHMO.org
  
  Finally some serious information about this widespread danger! Thank You!
- That's a chemical!
- I heard that same chemical is in the COVID vaccine. And it just so happens to be in the school lunches? Not in my back yard!

LVII percent of people are morons.
- And XXIX percent at least understood the assignment
  
  XIV% of people just wanted to see the results.
- Or fiftyseven percent

Well you heard them. American numbers only from now on.
Get learning, kids.
- Those are Mayan numerals for those curious
- Now I ain't sayin that's a good system but I ain't sayin it's a bad system.
  
  Straightforward enough. Dots and tics in fives. And a weird croissant for some reason.
  
  What's 20? 100? 1000?
- How dare you! Circles!? They must be stars!!

It's America, we count shit in stars and stripes.
- What about other things besides shit?
  
  Eagles per gun
  
  If it's big, I've seen them use refrigerators, washing machines and football fields as units of measure.
  Anything to avoid the metric system.
  
  "Wait, it's all shit?"
  "Always has been"
  
  Can't speak for americans but in the UK it is customary to measure things in number of bananas and count things in tins of baked beans. Dont get me started on fractions.
  
  Time is measured in eagle caws (eagle shrieks?).

...ucked.
- 🤣🤣

Gotcha questions like this (eg "should we ban dihydromonoxide") are supposed to show us not to jump to conclusions, but I'm guessing the people voting no on this one aren't taking much away from it
- I think the point is less the conclusions of the poll itself, but moreso the ignorance of the average person about what the Arabic numerals are.

Do you want to tell them, or should i?
- Idk, I have no idea how to read the results I’m American.

Back to Greek then. 😅
- Is that like Roman numerals?
  
  It is similar in that they use characters from their alphabet as numerals but not exactly the same way as the Romans. Greek numerals are decimal, based on powers of 10, just like Roman and Arabic. The units from 1 to 9 are assigned to the first nine letters of the old Ionic alphabet from alpha to theta. Instead of reusing these numbers to form multiples of the higher powers of ten, however, each multiple of ten from 10 to 90 was assigned its own separate letter from the next nine letters of the Ionic alphabet from iota to koppa. Each multiple of one hundred from 100 to 900 was then assigned its own separate letter as well, from rho to sampi.
  
  Not really, they're based on gematria like Hebrew numerals. α = 1, β = 2, γ = 3 and so on
  
  Roman got it from the Greek too before adapting it, iirc.

You're joking, but give it a few months to a year.
This will be a republican talking point for doing away with public schools.

We, a Christian nation, should instead teach Church Numerals like GOD INTENDED! (/s)

…ucking stupid

To be fair the system is hindu arabic.
Closer to hindu १२३ than arabic ١٢٣
- How did they get mixed? I see 1 in arabic and 2 and 3 in Hindu. Is there a good place to start reading or watching about this in your opinion? If not, I'm just gonna YouTube the history of numbers and see where I land
  
  IIRC Hindus invented this number system (with glyphs for 0-9), and then the Arabs starting using it. Eventually the west started using them and credited the Arabs.
  As for how they are written, everyone used the same shapes, and then they probably just ended up changing over time (“Hmm…how do I write that number again? Oh whatever I’ll just make it up”)
  Feel free to do your own research though.
  
  I'd go on a youtube journey. I'm sure you'll find some cool linguistics videos about it
  
  1 and 9 are the only ones that seem more arabic than hindu. Hindu gets १ and ९. Everything else is pretty close to source.
- TIL
  
  Im guessing the "No" makes a bell curve of those who know and those that dont

In fairness the question is open to interpretation. They don't specify if they mean western or eastern Arabic numerals.
As schools in the west already teach western, the people responding could justifiably deduce that the question is referring to eastern.
- But the Eastern Arabic numbers are the same as the western ones except that the Arabs call them Indian numbers
- "What kind of swallow, African or European?"

Someone should tell them...
- I got a feeling they wouldn't even listen.

Imperial mesure and Roman numerals fits good in this dystopic redneck country
- My thought exactly. Arabic numerals imply the decimal system and then people can't use their grandma's recipes anymore.
  
  I like the Batman unit

Fucking idiots...

Roman numerals only!

...ucked

Apparently they call it "Hindu-Arabic" numbers now. Not sure if that makes it more or less frightening
- Sounds like double trouble
- No, it's called Eastern Arabic numerals (١٢٣), and those (123) are western Arabic.
- Arabs got their numbers from Persians. Europeans got their numbers from Arabs.
  
  The Persians got them from the Indians.

Well there's always Roman to fall back to

I guess 0123456789 count as Western numerals now
- All your numerals are belong to us.
  You have no chance to survive format your datetime.
  
  What you say? (I just had to reference the meme even further)

Cistercian numeral fans eating tonight

Finally, fuck math
- Do meth instead

Looks like they are not teaching the dumber students enough.

xx past xi. Sure, whatever

Lemme guess....another fine YouGov poll?
- Civic Science
  https://www.iflscience.com/56-percent-of-americans-dont-think-we-should-teach-arabic-numerals-in-school-52484
  They openly admit that they were trying to mislead surveyed people with their wording. These results were taken as tribalism on both sides:
  Should schools in America teach the creation theory of Catholic priest Georges Lamaitre as part of their science curriculum?
  The results were 20% yes, 53% no, 27% no opinion. Turns out the "creation theory" in question was the Big Bang Theory. No one calls the Big Bang Theory a "creation theory". Overall, I'd call this a shit poll that isn't good for anything beyond a chance to clutch at pearls.
  Edit: How could I miss it! It's a troll poll!

Dumb mother fuckers.

Ah yes, 2,313 people, otherwise known as a representative sample 350 million.
- You mean, MMCCCXIII people.
- I don't believe this is a representative sample, but not because of the sample size. Stay in your lane, high school level science education.
  
  High school statistics covers sampling just fine. Some people weren't paying attention.
- You know there will be plenty of Americans who think their numbers are American and not Arabic.
  
  I've heard "speak American" coming out of one's mouth once.
  
  Hey now. Every village has its idiots. We just happen to have a lot of them.
  
  Because freedom!
  MURICAAAA!
- 🙄
  This fucking comment on every single poll result. Consider learning even the tiniest bit about how statistical sampling works.
  
  It appears to be an online poll which wouldn’t have proper sampling
- I don’t think a more representative sample would improve the ratio, tbh
- I agree this isn't representative. But i would argue there was no need for a poll to determine what percentage of americans would have said no.
  It would likely be fifty-seven percent. Or LVII per centum
- I've been seeing this one for years, are we even sure it was ever a real thing and not just a meme about the "dihydrogen monoxide" science word scary type reactionary movement?
  
  It most definitely is. The fact isAmerica is either smart enough to run the largest empire ever, or the world is dumb enough to let them do it. Personally, I'd like to think the rest of the world is also smart.

Its a legit answer to a smart ass question.
Which Arabic numerals? There are plenty. If you travel to an Arabic country and pick up some cash you will see some numerals that looks different than the ones we use in non-arabic countries.
It's like asking if children should have mandatory french in school. when people say no the children will not be taught words like Infantry, Entrecote or vulgar because those are french words.
The person making this question while squirting milk of his nostrils is more ignorant than your people saying no.

Ya, I don't understand the point here.
Is the context asking if jr high/high school language classes for languages that use Arabic Numerals should be banned?
Or is the context asking if grade school students should be taught all the different numerals of the world?
Or is the context asking if just English/Roman/Arabic numerals should be taught?
etc.
All of these questions have different answers...
- For context: Arabic numbers are the "normal" numbers you use every day in contrast to the Roman numerals for example
  
  Yes, and as I just learned EASTERN Arabic numerals are a horse of a completely different color.
  Its a good trick question.
  English speakers are going to look for "English/British/UK" for the name of the characters they use.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englishnumerals
  They are going to think that when you say Arabic, it means this:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EasternArabicnumerals
- It's pointing out how many people will ignorantly hate something just because of it's name.
  
  That might be the narrative its going for, but I don't think its a good example.
  Pointing out that people are dumb (like me) and that they dont know that English speaking countries use Non-Eastern Arabic Numerals, that might be something.
  Calling that racism is just lazy and misleading.
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals
  
  Thanks for the clarification. It looks like my google glance was too sloppy.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EasternArabicnumerals
  My glance lead me to believe these are Arabic numerals but they are EASTERN Arabic Numerals.
- What are "English" numerals and what is the difference to Arabic numerals?
  
  I'm learning on this thread.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englishnumerals
  I misinterpreted my quick Google and thought Eastern Arabic Numerals were Arabic Numerals.
  Then I googled "British Numerals" to find the proper name and Google told me the proper name was English Numerals.

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