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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Oxford Music Professors: Sheet Music is White Supremacy
Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 16:12:16 -0000 (UTC)
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The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>Thu, 16 May 2024 11:10:02 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:
>>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!

>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.