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What About Roman? (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 month ago by slothrop@lemmy.ca to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.ca

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Funny that in Chinese, I literally have always known it as 阿拉伯數字 (Arabic Numerals).

I'm starting to realize more and more how much the Chinese Language is just simply better at teaching concepts.

Disclaimer, I am ethnic Chinese, but I'm totally not biased at all :D

Edit:

Also, while we're on the topic of Numerals, teach Chinese Numbers as well, its literally one syllable per character, much easier to pronounce and remember.

English has become my primary language, but I still often find myself counting in Chinese (Cantonese).

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They're definitely known as Arabic numerals elsewhere too. It's mentioned in Math class fairly early on when Roman numerals are also introduced. I'm sure that even in American schools, it's mentioned that they're called Arabic numerals.

Unless you mean that in Chinese there's just no word for "numbers" and you have to use the name of the specific system?

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I mean, I've personally never heard of the term "Arabic Numeral" being uttered in a classroom from 2nd grade all the way through Highschool in the US Schools I've went to. It's just "write the numbers in words" or in "numbers/digits".

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Damn, maybe the US system is worse than I thought.

There are so many general knowledge things that aren't necessary for survival or to do your job that the general populace seems to lack. This is one of them

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[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We call them Arabic numerals too but the street name is numbers. Very powerful concept

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[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Chinese/Japanese characters have kindof always led to good student outcomes in wrote memorization because of the necessity of pattern recognition. With an alphabet there’s simply less to learn, and you don’t have much context since etymology in alphabet based languages is so much more esoteric.

Also, Americans aren’t really taught much about technology from outside of the American sphere of influence. American schooling has a lot of dead zones.

[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Aryabhata and Brahmagupta approve.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 1 points 1 month ago

Ahh yes. The good ol' 1 2 3s!

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's an older trolling sir, but it checks out

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