It’s funny that they might call this a PSYOP because they use disinfo and misinfo on every type of media imaginable, on a worldwide scale the likes of which most can not even imagine and would never believe. internet bots were sent by the millions to destroy america, lol. and every day, there are more. every accusation, and all.

      • pebbles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9·
        1 day ago

        Fun fact! If I recall correctly, calling them Arabic numerals is a eurocentric thing. The numbers were introduced to Greeks through Arabic folks but the ideas actually originated in India.

        • marcos@lemmy.world
          9·
          1 day ago

          Kinda. The Arabians changed them a little bit. It’s more correct to say the system was developed by both people exchanging ideas, but the vast majority of it in India.

          • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
            2·
            1 day ago

            yeah they changed the appearance of the number symbols a little bit, but i would say the real genius in the system is that it’s a place-value system and that each digit is valued 10 times more than the one after it. that’s the core of the system, the rest is just a make-up appearance.

            edit: also that you need a digit “0” to make a meaningful math system. that’s genius.

            • marcos@lemmy.world
              1·
              1 day ago

              Yes, technically putting a “0” instead of letting the place empty is included in “changing the appearance a little bit”, but your comment pre-edit undersells the innovation.

                • marcos@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  20 hours ago

                  On the sequence from your quote:

                  This system was established by the 7th century in India, but was not yet in its modern form because the use of the digit zero had not yet been widely accepted. Instead of a zero sometimes the digits were marked with dots to indicate their significance, or a space was used as a placeholder. The first widely acknowledged use of zero was in 876.

                  Things were not very consistent at that time. AFAIK the most common was to leave empty spaces, but several people tried to cope with it by different methods. Also AFAIK, that dot was a mere typographic icon, to make the empty space clear, but it wasn’t well accepted that you should actually put something there.

      • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 day ago

        Lmao I remember when it got posted like a week ago, in the comments someone said it was only a matter of time before stupid people reposted it unironically. Welp… Here we are

      • BanMe@lemmy.world
        11·
        1 day ago

        Wait hold on is the Jigsaw puppet taking the sensible position or the whackadoo position here? I’m assuming the latter but she’s absolutely smart enough to know how stupid this sounds.