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Should American Schools be Forced to Teach Arabic Numerals/Digits?

Yes. Horray for multiculturalism.
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No. This is America Dammit!!
4 (44.4%)
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Voting closed: May 06, 2019, 01:51:39 am

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Offline ABX

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Should American Schools be Forced to Teach Arabic Numerals/Digits?
« on: May 03, 2019, 01:51:39 am »
What say you? Schools are forcing children to learn Arabic Numerals.  More encroachment of Shakira Law.
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Offline InHeavenThereIsNoBeer

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Re: Should American Schools be Forced to Teach Arabic Numerals/Digits?
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2019, 03:36:43 am »
We don't need 10 numerals, when 10 would do just fine.

Teach binary!
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Re: Should American Schools be Forced to Teach Arabic Numerals/Digits?
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2019, 03:44:11 am »
Quote from: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on May 03, 2019, 03:36:43 am
We don't need 10 numerals, when 10 would do just fine.

Teach binary!

Nonsense!   We don't need 10 numerals, when 10 would do just fine.

Teach hexadecimal!
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Re: Should American Schools be Forced to Teach Arabic Numerals/Digits?
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2019, 06:17:24 pm »
   Octal decimal is my favorite.
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Re: Should American Schools be Forced to Teach Arabic Numerals/Digits?
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2019, 06:25:51 pm »
Quote from: ABX on May 03, 2019, 01:51:39 am
What say you? Schools are forcing children to learn Arabic Numerals.  More encroachment of Shakira Law.

Their hips don't lie.
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Re: Should American Schools be Forced to Teach Arabic Numerals/Digits?
« Reply #5 on: May 03, 2019, 06:45:20 pm »
Quote from: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on May 03, 2019, 03:36:43 am
We don't need 10 numerals, when 10 would do just fine.

Teach binary!

There are 10 kinds of people in this world.

Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
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Re: Should American Schools be Forced to Teach Arabic Numerals/Digits?
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2019, 12:30:28 am »
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Re: Should American Schools be Forced to Teach Arabic Numerals/Digits?
« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2019, 12:52:21 am »
EBCDIC
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Offline InHeavenThereIsNoBeer

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Re: Should American Schools be Forced to Teach Arabic Numerals/Digits?
« Reply #8 on: May 07, 2019, 01:00:18 am »
Quote from: Elderberry on May 07, 2019, 12:52:21 am
EBCDIC

EBCDIC: /eb´s@·dik/, /eb´see`dik/, /eb´k@·dik/, n. [abbreviation, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code] An alleged character set used on IBM dinosaurs. It exists in at least six mutually incompatible versions, all featuring such delights as non-contiguous letter sequences and the absence of several ASCII punctuation characters fairly important for modern computer languages (exactly which characters are absent varies according to which version of EBCDIC you're looking at). IBM adapted EBCDIC from punched card code in the early 1960s and promulgated it as a customer-control tactic (see connector conspiracy), spurning the already established ASCII standard. Today, IBM claims to be an open-systems company, but IBM's own description of the EBCDIC variants and how to convert between them is still internally classified top-secret, burn-before-reading. Hackers blanch at the very name of EBCDIC and consider it a manifestation of purest evil.
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Re: Should American Schools be Forced to Teach Arabic Numerals/Digits?
« Reply #9 on: May 07, 2019, 01:12:14 am »
OK then. EBDIC is out. Make it Binary64.
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Re: Should American Schools be Forced to Teach Arabic Numerals/Digits?
« Reply #10 on: May 07, 2019, 01:13:06 am »
hank williams jr - dinosaur


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Re: Should American Schools be Forced to Teach Arabic Numerals/Digits?
« Reply #11 on: May 07, 2019, 01:23:29 am »
EBCDIC

As one final point of interest, different countries have different character requirements, such as the á, ê, and ü characters. Due to the fact that IBM sold its computer systems around the world, it had to create multiple versions of EBCDIC. In fact, 57 different national variants were eventually wending their way across the planet. (A "standard" with 57 variants! You can only imagine how much fun everybody had when transferring files from one country to another).
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