Re: Why we must go back to Roman Numerals

From: MrPepper11 (MrPepper11_at_go.com)
Date: 07/07/04 

Date: 7 Jul 2004 05:09:34 -0700

Joseph Hertzlinger <jcyclespersecondlongisland@nine.reticulatedcom.com> wrote in message news:<cmXFc.7651$yy1.5976@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>...
> On 30 Jun 2004 17:55:05 -0700, Craig Feinstein <cafeinst@msn.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Considering that the US is looking a bit like the Roman Republic....

An ignorant Roman Republic:

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Teenager stumps Bush with pop math quiz
The Associated Press
July 7, 2004

ORLANDO· Gov. Jeb Bush had come to pitch the virtues of reading, but
instead got stumped on a math question Tuesday.

During a speech to high school students who mentor younger children in
reading, a teenager asked the governor a question taken from the
Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, which Bush has championed.

"Me and a couple of my friends ... we know that the FCAT is a very
important part of schooling in Florida and we were wondering if you
could answer one of the questions?" asked Luana Marques, 18, who just
graduated from Freedom High School in Orange County.

The luncheon crowd at an Orlando hotel laughed and Marques posed the
question: "What are the angles on a three-four-five-triangle?"

The governor gave a steely grin and then stalled a bit. "The angles
would be ... If I was going to guess ... Three-four-five.
Three-four-five. I don't know, 125, 90 and whatever remains on 180?"

Marques had the correct answer: "It's 30-60-90."

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Yeah, Jeb, it's a 125-90-(-35) triangle!!

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