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The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> 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!