Mat WrightThe total ignorance of the people in the White House is both alarming and hilarious
Ev Delen@MatWright Wait until they learn that Algebra is a modification of 'al-jabr', the title of a treatise written by medieval Persian Mathematician Al-Khwārizmī.
@evdelen 3, 2, 1 executive order to ban teaching math
@MatWright Have to stop at 1 though. Zero was also a Medieval Arab concept that wasn't widespread across Medieval Europe until the 13th century.
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The Hindu–Arabic numeral system (base 10) reached Western Europe in the 11th century, via Al-Andalus, through Spanish Muslims, the Moors, together with knowledge of classical astronomy and instruments like the astrolabe. Gerbert of Aurillac is credited with reintroducing the lost teachings into Catholic Europe. For this reason, the numerals came to be known in Europe as "Arabic numerals".
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From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0#Transmission_to_Europe
Ben Ford 
@MatWright @evdelen III, II, I
contrasocialThe joke that just keeps getting mileage out of conservatives.
ArchaeoIain@MatWright Dear God. It's real. Isn't it?
@MatWright funny hows AI works. I deliberately wrote without an upper case G. Either AI is religious, or dumb. Take your pick.
Mr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤@ArchaeoIain @MatWright
It's probably just autocorrect. Anyway, on Mastodon you can edit your posts.
It's probably just autocorrect. Anyway, on Mastodon you can edit your posts.
@MatWright
This is freaking #gold!
Is Loomer actually *IN* the #WhiteHouse?
Mark Shane HaydenWell isn't that wonderful.
Finally getting the hang of helping the kids do their "new math" homework now the MAGAts are gonna Save the Children by mandating the use of Roman Numerals in school and we're gonna all be stuck helping the kids do the "old math" homework 
@msh without a zero
xs4me2Yes, since Fibonacci introduced them in Europe in the 13th century… and btw the Arabs took them over from their trade with India, where it was used more than 300years bc…
Sigh… total ignorance indeed.
si2mev #antifa lover@MatWright Can we place somewhere that foot, mile and inch are also Arabic? That would solve a lot of misunderstanding.
One meter is exactly one step from the great ruler Napoleon of France . Trump has exactly the same length of steps. These facts can't be ignored.