Arabic Numerals Poll
الجمع والتفريق بحساب الهندي was written about 825 in arabic and then the arab mathematician al kindi who wrote four volumes on the use of the indian numerals ketab fi isti mal al adad al.
Arabic numerals poll. 29 of respondents said that arabic numerals should be taught in schools. The arabic numeral survey question is reminiscent of another viral questionnaire put forth by public policy polling ppp in december 2015. When civicscience a pittsburgh based market research firm polled more than 3 200 americans on the issue of mathematics instruction last week 56 of the respondents said arabic numerals should. Twenty nine per cent of respondents said the numerals should be taught in us schools and 15 per.
That s odd but. Nevertheless a survey conducted by poll company civic science has found that 56 percent of americans would like arabic numerals which are the numbers 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 and 9 used in every. 29 of respondents said that arabic numerals should be taught in schools. The poll did not explain what the term arabic numerals meant.
16 had no opinion on the subject. 16 had no opinion on the subject. That s odd but okay. That survey found that 41 of donald trump supporters.
As of xvi xx this afternoon lvii per cento of mmmmlxxiv respondents oppose teaching children those sinister arabic numerals. Which are you know the ones we use. Another xiv per cento chose not to register an opinion on this controversial question of arabic influence in education. That s great because they already are.
Let s start with the good. Those results which quickly inspired more than 24 000 tweets might have been sharply different had the pollsters. That s great because they already are. Some 56 percent of the respondents said no fifteen percent had no opinion.
The numeral system came to be known to the court of baghdad where mathematicians such as the persian al khwarizmi whose book on the calculation with hindu numerals arabic. Some 2 020 people answered no. Let s start with the good.