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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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