It's found everywhere. They've detected DHMO even in the deepest parts of the ocean, and it's been estimated that every single human being alive has at least some of it in their bloodstream. We're fucked.

Literally everyone who consumed it ends up dying.

I hear that every single person who drowned with the Titanic was later found to have elevated concentrations of dihydrogen monoxide in their bodies. Coincidence? I think not.

Finally some serious information about this widespread danger! Thank You!

XIV% of people just wanted to see the results.

Rest of the world: meters, cm, mm

The US: gerbil teeth, lark tongues in aspic, toenail clippings on fire

I especially love it when they use the weight of an airplane as a comparison. “It’s as heavy as a Boeing 747”. Even if someone had an intuition about the weight of something that large, they would probably be wrong because aircraft are relatively light for their size, it helps when you need to fly. Everything in a plane is made to be as light as possible, so nothing on board of it would weigh as much as the non-aircraft equivalent you’d be familiar with.

Excuse me but the correct SI units for length and area are double-decker buses and Waleses respectively ☺️

You're not alone, but the idea of a movment to duodecimal hasn't had traction in a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/...

Also, ancient Egypt was hip to his idea: https://hsm.stackexchange.com/a/2881

Fun fact, you can count from 1 to 12 on one hand by touching your thumb to count your finger bones, as there are 12 of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger-counting#Asia

duodecimal is a decimal based name, I propose "dozecimal"

Eagles per gun

If it's big, I've seen them use refrigerators, washing machines and football fields as units of measure.

Anything to avoid the metric system.

"Wait, it's all shit?"

"Always has been"

Can't speak for americans but in the UK it is customary to measure things in number of bananas and count things in tins of baked beans. Dont get me started on fractions.

Straightforward enough. Dots and tics in fives. And a weird croissant for some reason.

What's 20? 100? 1000?

It is similar in that they use characters from their alphabet as numerals but not exactly the same way as the Romans. Greek numerals are decimal, based on powers of 10, just like Roman and Arabic. The units from 1 to 9 are assigned to the first nine letters of the old Ionic alphabet from alpha to theta. Instead of reusing these numbers to form multiples of the higher powers of ten, however, each multiple of ten from 10 to 90 was assigned its own separate letter from the next nine letters of the Ionic alphabet from iota to koppa. Each multiple of one hundred from 100 to 900 was then assigned its own separate letter as well, from rho to sampi.

Not really, they're based on gematria like Hebrew numerals. α = 1, β = 2, γ = 3 and so on

Roman got it from the Greek too before adapting it, iirc.

IIRC Hindus invented this number system (with glyphs for 0-9), and then the Arabs starting using it. Eventually the west started using them and credited the Arabs.

As for how they are written, everyone used the same shapes, and then they probably just ended up changing over time (“Hmm…how do I write that number again? Oh whatever I’ll just make it up”)

Feel free to do your own research though.

I'd go on a youtube journey. I'm sure you'll find some cool linguistics videos about it

1 and 9 are the only ones that seem more arabic than hindu. Hindu gets १ and ९. Everything else is pretty close to source.

Im guessing the "No" makes a bell curve of those who know and those that dont

I like the Batman unit

The Persians got them from the Indians.

What you say? (I just had to reference the meme even further)

High school statistics covers sampling just fine. Some people weren't paying attention.

I've heard "speak American" coming out of one's mouth once.

Hey now. Every village has its idiots. We just happen to have a lot of them.

Because freedom!

MURICAAAA!

It appears to be an online poll which wouldn’t have proper sampling

It most definitely is. The fact isAmerica is either smart enough to run the largest empire ever, or the world is dumb enough to let them do it. Personally, I'd like to think the rest of the world is also smart.

Yes, and as I just learned EASTERN Arabic numerals are a horse of a completely different color.

Its a good trick question.

English speakers are going to look for "English/British/UK" for the name of the characters they use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_numerals

They are going to think that when you say Arabic, it means this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/...

That might be the narrative its going for, but I don't think its a good example.

Pointing out that people are dumb (like me) and that they dont know that English speaking countries use Non-Eastern Arabic Numerals, that might be something.

Calling that racism is just lazy and misleading.

Thanks for the clarification. It looks like my google glance was too sloppy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/...

My glance lead me to believe these are Arabic numerals but they are EASTERN Arabic Numerals.

I'm learning on this thread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_numerals

I misinterpreted my quick Google and thought Eastern Arabic Numerals were Arabic Numerals.

Then I googled "British Numerals" to find the proper name and Google told me the proper name was English Numerals.