German mayoral candidate for banning Arabic numerals...

[Guelder]

I also support banning Arabic numerals

... First, Arabic numerals are better suited for math and already used worldwide. Second, it isn't even Arabic. Third, proper Latin numerals can't exactly describe numbers bigger than one million. Or the number zero. Fourth, do you seriously want to do 45,278,629 multiplied by 964 with Latin numerals?

There's practicality and common sense involved in this equation.

I understand your point, but in my opinion, Arabic does not belong to Europe and America, and about the fourth point: No, i only want the current 123-numbers used in the western world, thus in Europe and America

[Gigaverse]

... First, Arabic numerals are better suited for math and already used worldwide. Second, it isn't even Arabic. Third, proper Latin numerals can't exactly describe numbers bigger than one million. Or the number zero. Fourth, do you seriously want to do 45,278,629 multiplied by 964 with Latin numerals?

There's practicality and common sense involved in this equation.

I understand your point, but in my opinion, Arabic does not belong to Europe and America, and about the fourth point: No, i only want the current 123-numbers used in the western world, thus in Europe and America

So, yeah. Good luck being backwater economies. You're gonna desperately need to cling to it.

Oh, by the way. "In your opinion" is not a good indicator of objectivity.

[Risottia]

... First, Arabic numerals are better suited for math and already used worldwide. Second, it isn't even Arabic. Third, proper Latin numerals can't exactly describe numbers bigger than one million. Or the number zero. Fourth, do you seriously want to do 45,278,629 multiplied by 964 with Latin numerals?

There's practicality and common sense involved in this equation.

I understand your point, but in my opinion, Arabic does not belong to Europe and America, and about the fourth point: No, i only want the current 123-numbers used in the western world, thus in Europe and America

Which are Arabic numerals.
Originating in India, then carried by the Arab merchants up to the shores of the Mediterranean where they were picked up by Italian humanists.

[The Huskar Social Union]

... First, Arabic numerals are better suited for math and already used worldwide. Second, it isn't even Arabic. Third, proper Latin numerals can't exactly describe numbers bigger than one million. Or the number zero. Fourth, do you seriously want to do 45,278,629 multiplied by 964 with Latin numerals?

There's practicality and common sense involved in this equation.

I understand your point, but in my opinion, Arabic does not belong to Europe and America, and about the fourth point: No, i only want the current 123-numbers used in the western world, thus in Europe and America

0-9 are arabic numerals.

[Risottia]

I understand your point, but in my opinion, Arabic does not belong to Europe and America, and about the fourth point: No, i only want the current 123-numbers used in the western world, thus in Europe and America

0-9 are arabic numerals.

He's been supporting the Arabic cultural invasion until this day, and no one told him earlier. It's a commie conspiracy for sure.

[The Huskar Social Union]

0-9 are arabic numerals.

He's been supporting the Arabic cultural invasion until this day, and no one told him earlier. It's a commie conspiracy for sure.

*arabic chanting intensifies whilst the soviet anthem plays*

[Bears Armed]

Yes we should return to use of proper Indo-European tally marks not this foreign philosophy of Al-gebra

Did you know that this sort of response to Al-gebra was the source of the term "gibberish"?

[Risottia]

He's been supporting the Arabic cultural invasion until this day, and no one told him earlier. It's a commie conspiracy for sure.

*arabic chanting intensifies whilst the soviet anthem plays*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhBWw7OvFg0


Bet ze Juden are also involved somewhat.

[Petrolheadia]

I was wondering when we would see good honest Roman numerals again.

It'd finally make that V and X key on the keyboard useful again.

Well, you might as well buy a Vauxhall Velox and tell people you own a Vauxhall Velox.

[Guelder]

I understand your point, but in my opinion, Arabic does not belong to Europe and America, and about the fourth point: No, i only want the current 123-numbers used in the western world, thus in Europe and America

So, yeah. Good luck being backwater economies. You're gonna desperately need to cling to it.

Oh, by the way. "In your opinion" is not a good indicator of objectivity.

I see liberal tears

[Ludin]

... First, Arabic numerals are better suited for math and already used worldwide. Second, it isn't even Arabic. Third, proper Latin numerals can't exactly describe numbers bigger than one million. Or the number zero. Fourth, do you seriously want to do 45,278,629 multiplied by 964 with Latin numerals?

There's practicality and common sense involved in this equation.

I understand your point, but in my opinion, Arabic does not belong to Europe and America, and about the fourth point: No, i only want the current 123-numbers used in the western world, thus in Europe and America

The current numbers (1,2,3 etc) are arabic numerals. That's why the world is laughing at the candidate. He hears "Arabic" and doesn't understand that the numerals the West uses every day are the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals

[Soyouso]

Shows once more how fascism is still strong in capitalist Germany. The government is more interested in smearing the legacy of the antifascist GDR than lerning from the terrors of fascism. Capitalism gives birth to fascism, as seen by the neofascist racist party of AfD being 3rd in polls.

I hope The Left, DKP and MLPD gain majority in elections.

Are you serious? Germany is nowhere near fascist at this point. Do you have any idea how much they've been trying to make up for Hitler since? They literally made someone who moved there leave because she was honest that mass immigration was a problem. Germany is so censorship happy because of Nazi guilt it's not even funny anymore.

Also, fascism is not laissez faire capitalism, Mussolini's fascism was corporatist. There is a difference.

[Petrolheadia]

So, yeah. Good luck being backwater economies. You're gonna desperately need to cling to it.

Oh, by the way. "In your opinion" is not a good indicator of objectivity.

I see liberal tears

Alt-righters mocking liberals for mocking opinions?

Boy, what has the world come to!

[Serconas]

This has to be a joke, right?

The member from the satirical Die Partei baited the NPD dude and it seems he swallowed it whole.
Die Partei got what it wanted.

[Risottia]

So, yeah. Good luck being backwater economies. You're gonna desperately need to cling to it.

Oh, by the way. "In your opinion" is not a good indicator of objectivity.

I see liberal tears

And how are you going to count them?

[Greater Cesnica]

Guelder. Jesus Fucking Christ. Arabic is a fucking name. 0-9 is fucking Arabic. Let's see...

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Do those look Arabic to you? Because the origin is, smart one.

[Greater Cesnica]

This has to be a joke, right?

The member from the satirical Die Partei baited the NPD dude and it seems he swallowed it whole.
Die Partei got what it wanted.

#DiePartei 4 lyfe

[Guelder]

I see liberal tears

And how are you going to count them?

I don't count it, i just know that liberals don't like conservatives, and every time they hear a conservative speaking they burst their tears out

[The Alma Mater]

I understand your point, but in my opinion, Arabic does not belong to Europe and America, and about the fourth point: No, i only want the current 123-numbers used in the western world, thus in Europe and America

0-9 are arabic numerals.

Hindu numerals. But indeed, the numerals used in the Arabic world as well.

Nordic numerals could be fun though. Runestones ftw.

[Greater Cesnica]

And how are you going to count them?

I don't count it, i just know that liberals don't like conservatives, and every time they hear a conservative speaking they burst their tears out

I'm a Red Tory over here.

[Petrolheadia]

And how are you going to count them?

I don't count it, i just know that liberals don't like conservatives, and every time they hear a conservative speaking they burst their tears out

I didn't, I simply made fun of you.

[Greater Cesnica]

I don't count it, i just know that liberals don't like conservatives, and every time they hear a conservative speaking they burst their tears out

I didn't, I simply made fun of you.

It's called active denial.

[Gaazikumukh]

Well... I have no words. Just... god damn.

Well, we could always stick to lovely Chinese numerals. 〇 (or 零) 一二三四五六七八九十 is 0-10, 百 is 100, 千 is 1,000, 万 is 10,000 and so on. It's much easier to do math with these compared to Roman numerals (e.g. 429 x 61 = 26,169; in Chinese numerals that's like 四百二十九 x 六十一 = 二万六千一百六十九; compared to Roman numerals where that's CDXXIX x LXI = MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMCLXIX)

But I mean... Please tell me this whole thing is a joke. Please tell me people aren't this horrendously stupid

[Guelder]

0-9 are arabic numerals.

Hindu numerals. But indeed, the numerals used in the Arabic world as well.

Nordic numerals could be fun though. Runestones ftw.

I did a little research, this is what i found on wikipedia:

In Europe, the first mention and representation of Hindu-Arabic numerals (from one to nine, without zero), is in the Codex Vigilanus, an illuminated compilation of various historical documents from the Visigothic period in Spain, written in the year 976 by three monks of the Riojan monastery of San Martín de Albelda. Between 967 and 969, Gerbert of Aurillac discovered and studied Arab science in the Catalan abbeys. Later he obtained from these places the book De multiplicatione et divisione (On multiplication and division). After becoming Pope Sylvester II in the year 999, he introduced a new model of abacus, the so-called Abacus of Gerbert, by adopting tokens representing Hindu-Arab numerals, from one to nine.
Leonardo Fibonacci brought this system to Europe. His book Liber Abaci introduced Arabic numerals, the use of zero, and the decimal place system to the Latin world. The numeral system came to be called "Arabic" by the Europeans. It was used in European mathematics from the 12th century, and entered common use from the 15th century to replace Roman numerals.
The familiar shape of the Western Arabic glyphs as now used with the Latin alphabet (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) are the product of the late 15th to early 16th century, when they enter early typesetting. Christian scientists used the Babylonian numeral system, and merchants used the Abjad numerals, a system similar to the Greek numeral system and the Hebrew numeral system. Similarly, Fibonacci's introduction of the system to Europe was restricted to learned circles. The credit for first establishing widespread understanding and usage of the decimal positional notation among the general population goes to Adam Ries, an author of the German Renaissance, whose 1522 Rechenung auff der linihen und federn was targeted at the apprentices of businessmen and craftsmen.

So this basically means that the Latin numerals comes from Western Arabic, but that doesn't make sense, the Arabic numerals i'm talking about is ٠‎ - ١‎ - ٢‎ - ٣‎ -٤‎ - ٥‎ - ٦‎ - ٧‎ - ٨‎ - ٩‎ and not 0123456789

[Guelder]

I don't count it, i just know that liberals don't like conservatives, and every time they hear a conservative speaking they burst their tears out

I didn't, I simply made fun of you.

That's for me the same, because that's what Liberals do