Fear not, my friend
From: Israeli guy (anonymous_at_mathforum.org)
Date: 07/01/04
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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 13:54:45 +0000 (UTC)
On 30 Jun 2004, Craig Feinstein wrote:
>Some people consider Roman Numerals to be inferior to normal Arabic
>numerals, but I disagree. The reason that I disagree is because Arabic
>numerals are a falsehood, since they use zero as a digit and there is
>no such thing as zero. Has anyone ever observed zero? Of course not,
>because zero does not exist!
>
>If we abolish zero from mathematics, then we would be a much better
>off. The number zero makes people sad, because it reminds them of
>death. So I am starting a petition to President Bush to ban the number
>zero and go back to the old way of Roman Numerals. If you agree, then
>please sign it and forward it to our great leader. If everyone signs
>this petition and emails it to at least 5 friends, then together we
>can change the world!
>----------------------------------
>
>Dear President Bush:
>
>I admire your leadership and courage in the war on terrorism. You are
>truly a man of action. To win this war, I think it is imperative that
>we take some action in the following area: Ever since the Dark Ages
>when the Western World came into contact with the Arab world, the
>Western World began to gradually switch from Roman numerals to Arabic
>numerals. This was clearly a calculated move on the part of people of
>the same ilk as Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein to get their
>foothold in the West. Unfortunately for them, this tactic did not fool
>people like you and me. The advent of Arabic numerals, particularly
>the number zero, was clearly a hijacking of a great monotheistic
>religion, Islam, which also helped to cause a spiritual downfall of
>our glorious Western civilization, since the number zero is a pagan
>concept. (Luckily, the Hollywood movie industry was not completely
>affected by this plot.) Those same individuals responsible for the
>number zero have been trying to undermine the security of our great
>country, the USA, for at least a decade now. In order to stop the root
>of this madness, we must take action immediately and ban Arabic
>numerals completely from the world and go back to Roman Numerals.
>
>Dr. Ben Zona Ph.D.
The notions of zero and of the algorithm are the only good ones the arabs produced in the
last millennia. Now if they suddenly developed brains, and stopped dedicating their efforts
to the glorious task of destroying Israel that would be a one hell of a conspiracy to worry
from. I say : lets go back to trading camels !
Now if you'll excuse me I have to go ride my IV by IV
Israeli guy.
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