Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Oxford Music Professors: Sheet Music is White Supremacy Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 16:12:16 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <9kednTImBeTyi977nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@giganews.com> Injection-Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 18:12:16 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b4631296918d98e7945282e7a7ea7c38"; logging-data="2388911"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+tq9Cav/4hloObYGLnYz2eE/KBexQ1Yf0=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:4gP4rTGf0RRin4w4lf4yB95rcg0= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 1700 The Horny Goat wrote: >Thu, 16 May 2024 11:10:02 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman : >>The Horny Goat wrote: >>>. . . >>>There's a reason countries in both East and West use Arabic numbers in >>>preference to Roman numerals you know. The bottom line is that Arab >>>numerals are far simpler to use than Roman numerals in complex >>>calculations >>I have never read how the Romans performed arithmetic. >>>I'm not bowing to Mecca when I calculate using Arabic numerals you >>>know! >As a former high school math teacher I know how to do basic math with >Roman numerals but no question Arabic is easier... That wasn't what I had wondered about.