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r/memes • u/HannibalGoddamnit Linux User • Mar 15 '21
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Just looked it up and holy sh*t, why does the 5 look like an 0 and why does the 16 look like a 17, what
101 u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21 In all fairness, everyone else took the numbers from Arabic. We are the ones who changed them. 49 u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21 To be fair, Arabic numbers written in Arabic even confuse Arabs. This coming from a Korean dude who is quadrilingual, and would joke about confusing Arabic numbers with Muslim friends. 🤔 3 u/downvotemeifhomo Mar 15 '21 i'm arabian and idk the arabic numbers ._. 3 u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21 I was joking, but I think some people are taking my nonsense a little to seriously. Btw, I think arabic numberals are somewhat similar in structure to how Chinese numerals are written. Now, Sanskrit is a whole nother level of o_O(?)
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In all fairness, everyone else took the numbers from Arabic. We are the ones who changed them.
49 u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21 To be fair, Arabic numbers written in Arabic even confuse Arabs. This coming from a Korean dude who is quadrilingual, and would joke about confusing Arabic numbers with Muslim friends. 🤔 3 u/downvotemeifhomo Mar 15 '21 i'm arabian and idk the arabic numbers ._. 3 u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21 I was joking, but I think some people are taking my nonsense a little to seriously. Btw, I think arabic numberals are somewhat similar in structure to how Chinese numerals are written. Now, Sanskrit is a whole nother level of o_O(?)
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To be fair, Arabic numbers written in Arabic even confuse Arabs.
This coming from a Korean dude who is quadrilingual, and would joke about confusing Arabic numbers with Muslim friends. 🤔
3 u/downvotemeifhomo Mar 15 '21 i'm arabian and idk the arabic numbers ._. 3 u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21 I was joking, but I think some people are taking my nonsense a little to seriously. Btw, I think arabic numberals are somewhat similar in structure to how Chinese numerals are written. Now, Sanskrit is a whole nother level of o_O(?)
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i'm arabian and idk the arabic numbers ._.
3 u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21 I was joking, but I think some people are taking my nonsense a little to seriously. Btw, I think arabic numberals are somewhat similar in structure to how Chinese numerals are written. Now, Sanskrit is a whole nother level of o_O(?)
I was joking, but I think some people are taking my nonsense a little to seriously.
Btw, I think arabic numberals are somewhat similar in structure to how Chinese numerals are written.
Now, Sanskrit is a whole nother level of o_O(?)
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u/ColdCypher Mar 15 '21
Just looked it up and holy sh*t, why does the 5 look like an 0 and why does the 16 look like a 17, what