Re: [lojban] (from lojban-beginners) pi'e

From: DougEwell2@cs.com
Date: Sat Sep 22 2001 - 13:00:35 EDT

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In a message dated 2001-09-22 0:02:39 Pacific Daylight Time,
Edward.Cherlin.SY.67@aya.yale.edu writes:

> Businesses continued to use Roman numerals for several centuries (because
> addition and subtraction is easier in Roman numerals,

I would be fascinated to see some sort of evidence that addition and
subtraction is easier in Roman numerals than in Hindu-Arabic ("European")
numerals.

-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California

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