10-15-2020, 10:59 AM
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#6421
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by dino7c
lol Merica, this is what we are up against
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Sorry if asking makes me a Klansman, but what’s the difference between normal numerals and Arabic numerals?
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10-15-2020, 10:59 AM
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#6422
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
They're banking on a repeat of "but her emails" among the few voters that they may be able to swing. However, it's more than likely that anyone who could be swayed by that were already firmly in Trump's camp.
On another note, hearing Ted Cruz speak today reminds me of what an insufferable a-hole he is. Just a smarmy, slimy little weasel. Even if he could be right on a point or two, his delivery is so disgusting I just want to smack him across the face.
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Agreed. He disgusts me!
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10-15-2020, 11:01 AM
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#6423
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Sorry if asking makes me a Klansman, but what’s the difference between normal numerals and Arabic numerals?
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Normal numerals are Arabic numerals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals
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10-15-2020, 11:01 AM
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#6424
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: An all-inclusive.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Sorry if asking makes me a Klansman, but what’s the difference between normal numerals and Arabic numerals?
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"Normal" numerals are Arabic numerals. 0123456789.
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10-15-2020, 11:01 AM
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#6425
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Boca Raton, FL
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Sorry if asking makes me a Klansman, but what’s the difference between normal numerals and Arabic numerals?
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Nothing, they are one and the same. That's the problem.
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If we can't fall in love with replaceable bottom 6 players then the terrorists have won.
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10-15-2020, 11:06 AM
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#6426
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Matata
I'm pretty sure less than 1% of the people know what Arabic numerals are without looking it up (I've actually asked many people if they know what Arabic numerals are and no one has ever answered correctly). Question is also misleading as it implies they are not already taught. All this poll shows is how a small sample group reacts to buzzwords.
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Uh, that's the joke (insert McBain gif)
Arabic=bad/terrorists to many Mericans. If you don't know what it means look it up somehow, maybe with the computer or phone you are using to answer the poll.
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10-15-2020, 11:10 AM
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#6427
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My face is a bum!
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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Sorry if asking makes me a Klansman
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It's the little things that keep me coming back to this thread
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10-15-2020, 11:11 AM
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#6428
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
Nothing, they are one and the same. That's the problem.
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Mini rabbit hole...I was wondering if they write numbers backwards, since they compose right to left. They do not, the write them the same as us. They see it as reading the least significant digit first.
It also points out that Arabic numerals originated in India, where they compose in both directions.
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-numera...ight-in-Arabic
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10-15-2020, 11:11 AM
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#6429
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Virginia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dino7c
Uh, that's the joke (insert McBain gif)
Arabic=bad/terrorists to many Mericans. If you don't know what it means look it up somehow, maybe with the computer or phone you are using to answer the poll.
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Wait a minute. We are using Phillies fans as a representation of Americans??? The fans who get arrested for intentionally vomiting on little girls? I'm surprised any of them got it right!
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10-15-2020, 11:15 AM
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#6430
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
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I suspected.
This poll, it triggers conservatives for one reason and liberals for a completely different one.
Solid work, Ivan.
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10-15-2020, 11:28 AM
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#6431
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Originally Posted by Kybosh
"Normal" numerals are Arabic numerals. 0123456789.
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The name is a little misleading though. They were introduced to Europe through Arabs, but actually originated in India.
(I see that was already mentioned by Fuzz)
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10-15-2020, 11:36 AM
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#6432
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
The name is a little misleading though. They were introduced to Europe through Arabs, but actually originated in India.
(I see that was already mentioned by Fuzz)
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10-15-2020, 11:48 AM
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#6433
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evil of fart
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Western Arabic (Gobar) & 15th Century had pretty crappy 5s that look too much like 9s.
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10-15-2020, 11:53 AM
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#6434
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fuzz
Mini rabbit hole...I was wondering if they write numbers backwards, since they compose right to left. They do not, the write them the same as us. They see it as reading the least significant digit first.
It also points out that Arabic numerals originated in India, where they compose in both directions.
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-numera...ight-in-Arabic
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Yes and no. It's actually extremely confusing if you're not speaking the language on a daily basis.
For example, the number 241 385 is read from left to right in English ( two hundred, forty-one thousand, three hundred, eighty-five).
In Arabic it bounces around a lot ( two hundred and one and forty thousand, three hundred and five and eighty).
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10-15-2020, 11:53 AM
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#6435
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Boca Raton, FL
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^I only see a G instead of a 5.
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Originally Posted by ResAlien
If we can't fall in love with replaceable bottom 6 players then the terrorists have won.
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10-15-2020, 12:07 PM
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#6436
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by _Q_
Yes and no. It's actually extremely confusing if you're not speaking the language on a daily basis.
For example, the number 241 385 is read from left to right in English ( two hundred, forty-one thousand, three hundred, eighty-five).
In Arabic it bounces around a lot ( two hundred and one and forty thousand, three hundred and five and eighty).
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So it sounds like we should not be teaching math in Arabic in schools, because it would be unnecessarily confusing for the non-Arabic speakers.
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10-15-2020, 12:24 PM
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#6437
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That Crazy Guy at the Bus Stop
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Springfield Penitentiary
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Tucker Carlson for President might be the scariest thing I've ever read.
Might as well nominate David Duke.
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10-15-2020, 12:28 PM
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#6438
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Ben
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: God's Country (aka Cape Breton Island)
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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Tucker Carlson for President might be the scariest thing I've ever read.
Might as well nominate David Duke.
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He's gonna need a VP
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10-15-2020, 12:28 PM
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#6439
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Tucker Carlson for President might be the scariest thing I've ever read.
Might as well nominate David Duke.
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You know who’s president now, right?
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10-15-2020, 12:32 PM
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#6440
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Victoria
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Tucker Carlson for President might be the scariest thing I've ever read.
Might as well nominate David Duke.
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I've posted it before, but if the Democrats go back to the neoliberal policies of the Obama and Clinton administrations, and do nothing to solve the rampant inequality in the country and the entrenched corporate aristocracy/oligarchy, we're going to be right back here in 4-8 years with another (likely worse) version of Trump.
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