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Poll: Should schools in the US teach arabic numerals?
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No terrorist crap for my kids!!
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Screw all polls!
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Gawdzilla Sama Offline
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May 15, 2019 at 9:16 am
(May 15, 2019 at 9:09 am)wyzas Wrote: 00101110100101110000011010109

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May 15, 2019 at 9:17 am
Sounds like the joke about water. You spell out what it is chemically, and it sounds wrong, but if you jut say water, they know what you mean.
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#13
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May 15, 2019 at 9:57 am
(May 15, 2019 at 9:09 am)wyzas Wrote: 00101110100101110000011010109



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May 15, 2019 at 10:51 am
I stopped being surprised by this shit when Republicans were polled and many were in favor of bombing Agrabah:

http://time.com/4155228/amiercans-bomb-aladdin-agrabah/

And Agrabah doesn’t even exist IRL. Well, maybe in Adventureland in Disneyland Paris.
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May 15, 2019 at 11:58 am
I voted terrorist crap for the laugh.
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#16
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May 15, 2019 at 5:04 pm
Where people fail with this is in their innumeracy. These symbols originated in India. Italics mine.

"The term often implies a number written in the Hindu–Arabic numeral system, the most common system for the symbolic representation of numbers in the world today."
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May 15, 2019 at 5:27 pm
What's all the fuss. I still count with my fingers. No Arabs needed.
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May 15, 2019 at 5:35 pm
(May 15, 2019 at 10:51 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: I stopped being surprised by this shit when Republicans were polled and many were in favor of bombing Agrabah:

http://time.com/4155228/amiercans-bomb-aladdin-agrabah/

And Agrabah doesn’t even exist IRL. Well, maybe in Adventureland in Disneyland Paris.

They meant bomb Disneyland!

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May 19, 2019 at 11:13 am
whats next children should be taught the fundamental teachings of the terrorist group known as algebra? what is this world coming to Banging Head On Desk
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May 19, 2019 at 11:14 am
Al-Gibraq has caused untold misery in our schools already.
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