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| From | Andy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: Windows 11 is now available |
| Date | 2021-10-08 19:40 +0100 |
| Organization | Not very much |
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On 08/10/2021 13:13, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
> I was starting high and was hoping to progress via mechanical
> calculators/sliderules to end with "my grandad just counted pebbles".
> VI*VII=XLII
Not quite sure what that last line was intended to convey,
but if it was that Roman numerals are not sensible in use for
arithmetic, then, within reason, I beg to differ. Within the
domain of small[-ish] integers, they are, if anything, rather
better than Arabic numerals [else you can be sure that Romans,
always very practical, wouldn't have used them]. They have a
smaller and more regular multiplication table, simpler rules
[eg in respect of "carries" and "borrows"], and addition and
subtraction are largely mere concatenation together with some
obvious re-write rules. It's a different matter when you're
doing physics or even engineering to many decimal places or
with numbers much over MMM, but neither the Romans nor the
man on the Clapham Omnibus were much into such things.
--
Andy Walker, Nottingham.
Andy's music pages: www.cuboid.me.uk/andy/Music
Composer of the day: www.cuboid.me.uk/andy/Music/Composers/Chopin
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