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Dear Renu,
True! People are losing all their talents.

When we were kids we used to recite multiplication tables involving not only integers but also fraction like 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 etc. My grand father could recite tables involving 1/8, 1/16 and 1/32 etc. If I remember correctly... their names were araikkal, veesam and maahaaNi respectively .

A rupee had 16 annas and each Anna had 12 paise . So the knowledge of all these tables were absolutely necessary. When the decimal system was adopted and rupee was made to have 100 paise everything about fractions was promptly forgotten.

Yesterday we made our first visit to the dentist. The assistant of the dentist told me that cleaning the right side of my mouth will cost 162 $ and the left side 138$.

He was still trying to add these together when I told him that it will cost me 300$ to get both sides cleaned . He was duly impressed and said I seemed to be very good in Mathematics.

It is not their inability to count, even the numbers they write look so different like some Greek alphabets or Sanskrit numerals. I always make it a point to get the numbers deciphered and clarified!

<blockquote data-quote="Visalakshi Ramani" data-source="post: 379306" data-attributes="member: 16936">Dear Renu, True! People are losing all their talents. When we were kids we used to recite multiplication tables involving not only integers but also fraction like 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 etc. My grand father could recite tables involving 1/8, 1/16 and 1/32 etc. If I remember correctly... their names were araikkal, veesam and maahaaNi respectively . A rupee had 16 annas and each Anna had 12 paise . So the knowledge of all these tables were absolutely necessary. When the decimal system was adopted and rupee was made to have 100 paise everything about fractions was promptly&nbsp; forgotten.Yesterday we made our first visit to the dentist. The&nbsp; assistant of the dentist&nbsp; told me that cleaning the right side of my mouth will cost 162 $ and the left side 138$. He was still trying to add these together when I told him that it will cost me 300$ to get both sides cleaned . He was duly impressed and said I seemed to be very good in Mathematics.It is not their inability to count, even the numbers they write look so different like some Greek alphabets or Sanskrit numerals.&nbsp; I always make it a point to get the numbers deciphered and clarified! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Visalakshi Ramani, post: 379306, member: 16936"] [FONT=georgia][SIZE=3][I]Dear Renu, True! People are losing all their talents. When we were kids we used to recite multiplication tables involving not only integers but also fraction like 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 etc. My grand father could recite tables involving 1/8, 1/16 and 1/32 etc. If I remember correctly... their names were araikkal, veesam and maahaaNi respectively . A rupee had 16 annas and each Anna had 12 paise . So the knowledge of all these tables were absolutely necessary. When the decimal system was adopted and rupee was made to have 100 paise everything about fractions was promptly forgotten. Yesterday we made our first visit to the dentist. The assistant of the dentist told me that cleaning the right side of my mouth will cost 162 $ and the left side 138$. He was still trying to add these together when I told him that it will cost me 300$ to get both sides cleaned . He was duly impressed and said I seemed to be very good in Mathematics. It is not their inability to count, even the numbers they write look so different like some Greek alphabets or Sanskrit numerals. I always make it a point to get the numbers deciphered and clarified! :)[/I][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]

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