How Did Anyone Do Math in Roman Numerals?

Re:How Did Anyone Do Math in Roman Numerals? by allencoin on Friday July 21, 2017 @03:16PM (#14823107)

I remember learning Roman numerals in 1st or 2nd grade and finding them to be a lot easier for basic arithmetic.

I mean, all of the examples we used in school to learn basic arithmetic had things like "(picture of 4 apples) + (picture of 2 apples) = (picture of 6 apples)". Roman numerals are kind of a pictograph in a way.

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Re:How Did Anyone Do Math in Roman Numerals? by rtpg on Friday July 21, 2017 @03:44PM (#14823313)

but if you're in first grade then you do IV + II = IVII...??

To each their own, but I'm unsure of the relative ease of roman numerals

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Re:How Did Anyone Do Math in Roman Numerals? by tree_of_item on Friday July 21, 2017 @04:27PM (#14823562)

One of the points the article made was that IV wasn't really a thing when the Romans were actually using these numerals.

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