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.
That’s clearly a doughnought
That’s not a croissant, it’s a “bolillito” calientito pal’ perro frio que hace.
What’s 20? 100? 1000?
How dare you! Circles!? They must be stars!!
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.
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
my hebrew is a little rusty
Roman got it from the Greek too before adapting it, iirc.
Romans got like 80% of everything they stood for from the Greeks.
A joke goes: The Greek invented sex. The Romans later improved upon the idea by introducing women to it.
Hehe, yeah, even their God’s were recycled Greek ones.
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
Someone should tell them…
I got a feeling they wouldn’t even listen.
I mean we really should be using Mayan numerals. Switching to a base 12 numerical system would simplify using the Imperial measurement system. /s
but why? you’ll still measure things in football fields, elephants or “large boulders” so it won’t affect you much
I especially love it when they use the weight of an airplane as a comparison. “It’s as heavy as a Boeing 747”. Even if someone had an intuition about the weight of something that large, they would probably be wrong because aircraft are relatively light for their size, it helps when you need to fly. Everything in a plane is made to be as light as possible, so nothing on board of it would weigh as much as the non-aircraft equivalent you’d be familiar with.
Excuse me but the correct SI units for length and area are double-decker buses and Waleses respectively ☺️
A base-12 metric system would be absolutely gorgeous. Geometry and trigonometry would be greatly simplified with a duodecimal unit circle. Our 360-degree circle is a truly ugly hack to make geometry play nice with a decimal number system.
Our base-10 number system would be as ugly to a duodecimal society as a base-7 system would be to us.
duodecimal is a decimal based name, I propose “dozecimal”
Seems confusing, why don’t we just call it base-10?
Seems confusing, why don’t we just call it base-10?
I love this joke so much.
This made my day…I felt way too proud of the joke for being clever, and usually when that happens some people don’t get it and think I’m an idiot, and the people who get it think it’s just a dumb joke
I very nearly didn’t post the comment because of that, but said “fuck it, I think it’s funny, and if no one else does no one will notice”
Compliments mean nothing to me when I don’t feel proud of the thing being complimented, but I felt proud of this…
It’s a stupid little thing, but it comes at a time when I’m trying to build up the confidence to release the game demo I made months ago. You moved the needle a little bit… I’m going to text a friend right now and have someone else play the demo.
So thanks for telling me you loved the joke, it was the straw that pushed me into putting more of my work out there
I’m so glad! I totally get it, I love when someone notices something I’m proud of, especially when it’s unexpected. I’m thrilled I could help!
Also, I have previously told this joke you may appreciate:
“There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary, those who don’t, and those who knew this joke was in ternary all along.”
I laughed out loud, the twist at the end got me
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.
Fucking idiots…
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
Finally, fuck math
Do meth instead
To be fair the system is hindu arabic.
Closer to hindu १२३ than arabic ١٢٣
TIL
Im guessing the “No” makes a bell curve of those who know and those that dont
Dumb mother fuckers.
…ucked
…ucked.
Well there’s always Roman to fall back to
