Sometimes it's better to shut up and be believed to be an idiot, than to speak out and remove all doubt.
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conservatives also fall for scams very easily because of this, plus they believe in conspiracies quite alot, in unhealthy amounts. basically conservatives also believe in thier own BS too, thats why you can never argue with them to change thier minds on most things.
is working splendidly
Is it?
Fun fact! If I recall correctly, calling them Arabic numerals is a eurocentric thing. The numbers were introduced to Greeks through Arabic folks but the ideas actually originated in India.
Kinda. The Arabians changed them a little bit. It's more correct to say the system was developed by both people exchanging ideas, but the vast majority of it in India.
yeah they changed the appearance of the number symbols a little bit, but i would say the real genius in the system is that it's a place-value system and that each digit is valued 10 times more than the one after it. that's the core of the system, the rest is just a make-up appearance.
edit: also that you need a digit "0" to make a meaningful math system. that's genius.
Yes, technically putting a "0" instead of letting the place empty is included in "changing the appearance a little bit", but your comment pre-edit undersells the innovation.
i thought the indians already put a dot in place to denote zero?

From the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeral_system
Indian mathematicians, such as Brahmagupta in the 7th century, played a crucial role in formalizing arithmetic rules and the concept of zero, which was later refined by scholars like Al-Khwarizmi in the Islamic world.
On the sequence from your quote:
This system was established by the 7th century in India, but was not yet in its modern form because the use of the digit zero had not yet been widely accepted. Instead of a zero sometimes the digits were marked with dots to indicate their significance, or a space was used as a placeholder. The first widely acknowledged use of zero was in 876.
Things were not very consistent at that time. AFAIK the most common was to leave empty spaces, but several people tried to cope with it by different methods. Also AFAIK, that dot was a mere typographic icon, to make the empty space clear, but it wasn't well accepted that you should actually put something there.
Lmao I remember when it got posted like a week ago, in the comments someone said it was only a matter of time before stupid people reposted it unironically. Welp... Here we are
Wait hold on is the Jigsaw puppet taking the sensible position or the whackadoo position here? I'm assuming the latter but she's absolutely smart enough to know how stupid this sounds.
You can't tempt someone with a delectable child and then expect them not to rape it!? That's entrapment, assholes!
Is it "working splendidly?" They're getting almost everything they want, so clearly it's working for them.
Doesn't seem to work for their voters.
"Never interrupt your opponent when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
internet bots were sent by the millions to destroy america, lol
i used to think that too. but is it really the case?
there's definitely a lot of wild statements on the internet today, such as Nick Fuentes neo-nazi views.
though i do wonder, are they really bots, or do people really think like that?
Unfortunately the liberal plot also seems to indicate letting them take over and destroy the country in the process.
I wish it worked that way lol. It turns out that platforming idiots and hoping that they run out of steam and lose their idiot followers is not viable politics.


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