Why are Arabic Numbers basically universally used regardless of the languages native script?
>Arabic
They're from India, lad.
Only plebs care about maintaining superficial cultural differences and they don't use math.
because they're pretty good
>>1278169
It just works.
>>1278193
>Arabic numerals
>Islam
Found the uneducated borderline subhuman. Don't you have enough threads to shitpost in already?
>>1278169
Because they're legitimately the best.
>>1278193
>Muslim=Arab
>Arab=Muslim
>>1278169
They're incredibly convenient.
>regardless of the languages native script?
Who cares? Numbers are numbers
So, how did these get widespread usage?
>base 10
fucking dropped
>>1278210
Europe adopted them because they were easier
>>1278210
they were adopted because they are easier to work with
a big part of the reason was because of the invention of the number zero (which didn't exist in roman numerals etc.)
>>1278169
Azns still use their Chinknumerals based on context.
>>1278263
some dude started using them
some other dude saw them and thought they were dope
two dope boys in a cadillac
>>1278263
How: They adapted it through trade and exchanges from Enpire to empire, and it made everything easy to calculate in terms of that quantity of what is being sold and the currency being exchanged.
>>1278227
This is a myth, the romans did have zero "nulla". Zero just became more significant when algebra was developed.
Because some ancient algebra textbook used it and people who learned to use numbers learnt it from this book
>>1278169
Convenience across cultures.
>>1278306
that's not zero
9 ... 10
>>1278173
And yet they're called so.
>>1278212
t. Babylonian
>>1278212
Is base 30 the master race?
>>1278169
A shame we aren't using Duodecimal system. 12 is a great basis to work with.
>>1278528
What's the appeal of base 12? I mean clocks are nice, but it just seems unwieldy once you go past 144.
How did indians invent such nice looking numbers instead of their typical rune shittery?
>>1278537
>being this triggered
Embarrassing.
>>1278549
These are just runes you like.
>>1278555
>being this unable to defend himself
Sad
Who
>base 12 masterrace
Here?
>>1278614
>plebeian detected
>>1278622
You fucking wot?
1v1 me cunt
> not using base φ
When plebeians invaded this board?
>>1278626
U FOOKIN WOT M8
I'LL CHARLIE UR HOORSE U FOOKER
I'LL SKALLY UR WAG
I'LL BLOOK UR GARD
I'LL CUMPIT UR T
>>1278537
>Muslims have ethnically cleansed the Middle East of everyone but Arabs
turks do not exist, they are just a big lie, a boogeyman made up by orthodox christians
>>1278169
ALGEBRA
(duh)
>>1278800
Cool story bro. Ignoring the fact Turket likes to play pretend that it's both in the Middle-East and Europe at the same time, let's discern your point of view. Just how did the Turks come into existance?
>>1278201
How was your pilgrimage in mekka, saudi ARABIA, AHMED ? Did you read the QURAN and recited a few ARABIC prayers while you traveled in traditional ARABIC clothes to worship the cube ?
>>1278859
> More likely to have been an Indonesian guy reciting Arabic prayers in Indonesian traditional clothing for the first part until he entered mecca upon which he would wear a piece of cloth that barely covered from knee to belly and then the shoulders desu
>>1278842
>Just how did the Turks come into existance?
They were created by Gök Tanrı, god of the eternal blue sky :-DDD
iirc they were a bunch of mongol types from central asia who came down into turkey and Blanda Upped with the native greeks/anatolians/kurds/caucasians/whoever was already living in Asia Minor (rather like the spanish did in mexico) and that's why the average population of turkey is basically pretty similar to greeks/etc, but with a minor percentage of central asian turkic ancestry (and speak a turkic language).
That is to say, they're not Arabs.
>>1278919
You're missing a small part of their genetic heritage. To be fair it's the same part of their heritage the Turks wiped out and pretended never existed. What are the Kurds?
>>1278947
>What are the Kurds?
Good question
>>1278947
I unfortunately don't know much about the Kurds. I knew this Turkish guy who said the Kurds are "kind of like Gypsies and Mexicans." I don't think he liked them very much.
>>1278534
Fractions are easiear to write, cause 1/3 becomes 0.4. Plus it's easier to find out if you can divide a number by 3, 4 and 6. Downside is of course, everything that has to do with 5 in the decimal system becomes harder.
We're just so much used to the decimal system, but everything else feels off. Numbers beyond 100 are already unwieldy anyway. Is 127 a prime number? I know I have to think a bit.
>>1278173
Arabs are so pathetic
they steal food, bikes....and even numbers.
aren't humans "naturally" logarithmic?
One thousand four hundred and eighty eight
> Roman
MCDLXXXVIII
> Chinese
一千四百八十八
> Arabic
1488
Now tell me which one saves the most space.
>>1278247
This shit is the worst, I had to replace a lightbulb in Korea and all the fucking stores had them labeled in their godawful gookspeak, had to get one of the workers to help me find the size I needed.
>>1278169
Muslims invented math.
It's very important for making bombs.
>>1278519
>Indian Ocean
>Not owned by India
You're logic is flawed
I don't know and I'm curious myself but for a contemporary example isn't coding also pretty universal? Regardless if your native language is adapted to latin characters you're using them in stuff like C++ whether you like it or not.
Random guess but since that's something we've seen happen before our eyes we can speculate it's similar to what happened with the spread of western/arabic mathematics representation. Technical types that are the first to adopt this stuff care less about "muh tradition" and there is no great cultural loss compared to adopting something like a new common language or system of weighs and measurements. It also filters down from those elite technicians that make up a small often transnational community of experts.
>>1280812
>English
One thousand four hundred and eighty eight
wow look how long it is
Ironically, Arabs use Urdu numerals.
t. Arabic speaker
>>1278537
>Muslims have ethnically cleansed the Middle East of everyone but Arabs
People don't actually believe this do they?
>>1281011
Nah thats how /pol/ thinks history works.
Technically all of the Classical Euro/Mediterranean world was ethnically cleansed and replaced by Romans according to /pol/.
>>1278842
>how did the Turks come into existance?
Even god makes mistakes.
>1278537
>Even though Muslims have ethnically cleansed the Middle East of everyone but Arabs (and, to their eternal butthurt, the pkucky Israeli's)
What the hell?
What Arabs use.
