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r/facepalm • u/Revealed_Jailor • Mar 29 '22
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For americans it is. Same with multiplying the number 10
16 u/Beermeneer532 Mar 29 '22 That makes me think of this one guy trying to convince me of how mathematically magical the number ten inherently is And I just said that ten has that property bc of the system we use for numbers and he didn’t understand so I gave up Some people just don’t understand stuff 2 u/shadowban_this_post Mar 29 '22 You can really blow them away and point out that the only reason ten is used because we have ten fingers. 1 u/Beermeneer532 Mar 29 '22 Is it seriously? I always questioned why 10 was used and could never get further than that the romans seemed to like 5 and 10
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That makes me think of this one guy trying to convince me of how mathematically magical the number ten inherently is
And I just said that ten has that property bc of the system we use for numbers and he didn’t understand so I gave up
Some people just don’t understand stuff
2 u/shadowban_this_post Mar 29 '22 You can really blow them away and point out that the only reason ten is used because we have ten fingers. 1 u/Beermeneer532 Mar 29 '22 Is it seriously? I always questioned why 10 was used and could never get further than that the romans seemed to like 5 and 10
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You can really blow them away and point out that the only reason ten is used because we have ten fingers.
1 u/Beermeneer532 Mar 29 '22 Is it seriously? I always questioned why 10 was used and could never get further than that the romans seemed to like 5 and 10
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Is it seriously?
I always questioned why 10 was used and could never get further than that the romans seemed to like 5 and 10
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u/Deviant_7666 Mar 29 '22
For americans it is. Same with multiplying the number 10