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To: entropy12

Pretty sure that the camel at the gas station is in Israel. They don’t have signs in Hebrew and license plates with Roman numerals in Dubai.


21 posted on 11/09/2015 9:36:04 PM PST by Freedom_Fighter_2001
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To: Freedom_Fighter_2001
Pretty sure that the camel at the gas station is in Israel.

Well, ain't you a buzzkill? Just as this thread was getting feisty............

25 posted on 11/09/2015 9:42:35 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: Freedom_Fighter_2001

I thought Roman numerals look like this:
I II III IV V X....

http://literacy.kent.edu/Minigrants/Cinci/romanchart.htm

Those numbers you see 1 2 3 are Hindu-Arabic numerals and were invented by mathematicians in India. They were called “Hindu numerals”. They were later called “Arabic” numerals by Europeans, because they were introduced in the West by Arab merchants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu%E2%80%93Arabic_numeral_system


26 posted on 11/09/2015 9:47:15 PM PST by entropy12 (DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS or it is Amnesty! Only Trump has no rich donors pushing for cheap labor express)
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