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On 17 Dec 2024 04:34:14 GMT, Robert Riches wrote:

> The thought of doing long division in Roman numerals fills me with
> dread--let along manually doing finite element analysis.

I wonder how many little tricks they had? I've worked with carpenters who 
didn't know squat about the Pythagorean theorem or Euclidean geometry but 
they certainly knew about 3-4-5 triangles and such.