Arabic numerals

affected Chinese commerce Singles day is a kind of entertainment festival spreading in young people, who are priding in celebrating themselves single (the meaning of "bachelor" is "single"). The date of November 11(also as 11/11), contains four Arabic numerals "1”, whose shape is like four “solitary stick figures”. At the same time, “Solitary stick figures” are sharing the same Chinese characters with “bachelors”, and bachelors means single, hence November 11 represents for "singles Day"…

Humans are among the most intelligent species on the planet. In just the past 3,000 years we went from sticks and stones to touch screens and drones. With the usage of our intelligence and creativity we curated language and have been using it as a tool for communication. Trying to imagine a world without the use of language, any language, is an impossible task to accomplish. This may be because from the early phases of development we have used language as a means of communication. As a result of…

Matsuzawa has shown that young chimpanzee have high capabilities in remembering numerical components. Three mothers and their 4 year old offspring were used in this experiment. Using a touch screen monitor connected to a computer, they were taught arabic numerals from 1-9. Unique trials were used with both numbers in order and in adjacent positions. All chimpanzees accomplished the task of touching the numbers in numerical order. When the offspring reached 5 years of age, the chimpanzees had to…

Log—Feb. 2—6 This journey in which we are about to embark will be enriching to me personally. As a minister it is relevant and important to see Islam with a different perspective. The book start by saying that we need to see this particular set of believes with a different set of lenses. We cannot see Islam with the same point of view we’ve always seen them with. Our own believes, mind sets and even culture will only get in the way of looking at them with the eyes that God would want us to see…

Nicolas Chuquet (1445-1500) was a French Mathematician and in 1484 he published a work on algebra in three parts titled Triparty which is believed to be the first algebra book published in French: • Part I In part one of Triparty he uses the Hindu-Arabic place value system and uses the result of fractions if then, is between…

Abstract: This paper reveals the birth of mathematics. Representing quantities in some way is considered the first invention of mathematics. We use mathematics every day in one way or another. Sometimes we even use mathematics unconsciously, as in the case of filing a cup of water for cooking. The measure cup is readily available to us and all we have to do is fill it out, but who started this type of measurement? How old is mathematics? Specifically, how old is counting? When was representing…

During the first two centuries of the Roman Empire the number of slaves increased dramatically. These slaves were mainly war captives, kidnapped and sold in Rome’s large slave trade. Slaves had no rights and the immoral Romans looked at slavery as part of everyday life. During the early Roman republic, debtors would be forced to work for landowners in order to work off their debt. When this practice was outlawed, slave labor was needed. Slavery was thus of immense economic importance. Slaves…

Collectivism implies that people are integrated from birth into strong, cohesive groups that protect them in exchange for unquestioning loyalty. Hofstede found that individualistic cultures value personal time, freedom, challenge, and such extrinsic motivators as material rewards at work. In family relations, they value honesty/truth, talking things out, using guilt to achieve behavioral goals, and maintaining self-respect. Their societies and governments place individual social-economic…