Apparently they call it “Hindu-Arabic” numbers now. Not sure if that makes it more or less frightening
Arabs got their numbers from Persians. Europeans got their numbers from Arabs.
The Persians got them from the Indians.
Just wait until they find out public schools are giving their children dihydrogen monoxide without asking for parental approval.
The most dangerous substance in our modern world
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but why? you’ll still measure things in football fields, elephants or “large boulders” so it won’t affect you much
Rest of the world: meters, cm, mm
The US: gerbil teeth, lark tongues in aspic, toenail clippings on fire
Metres*
Meter is a measuring device (like a rain meter)
Metre is a unit of measurement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre
Meter is seemingly the american spelling, it’s also spelled meter in many european countries e.g. germany, netherlands
Metr in Czech.
We just have to be special. :-D
Nah, it’s like that on most (all?) Slavic languages. It’s метр in Russian for example which is exactly metr just in Cyrillic.
Ah yes, 2,313 people, otherwise known as a representative sample 350 million.
Edit: I’m not respond to the morons who think someone’s FB status poll is representative of America.
LVII percent of people are morons.
Or fiftyseven percent
