Re:Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rin...
by firstcommentyo on Thursday May 19, 2022 @03:47AM
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Welcome to MMXXII. About X centuries ago "we" imported the Hindu-Arabic numerals. I know, Latin numbers carry the myth of being more "safe" but really you should try the arabian numerals. They revolutionized math and eased reading text alongside.
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Re:Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rin...
by rossvor on Thursday May 19, 2022 @06:18AM
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It's a convention to use roman numerals for centuries in some european countries. Parent poster probably just done it out of habit.
Re:Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rin...
by puszczyk on Thursday May 19, 2022 @01:05PM
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Thanks, I wasn’t aware it is not a “global” convention and wasn’t sure what does the parent make fun of.
One learns every day :) I will be more careful about this when writing centuries in English the next time.
Also this poster on quora have a detailed list https://www.quora.com/Why-do-we-write-century-numbers-with-I...
It describes changes that happened in war, mining, shipping, trade in (mostly western) Europe in the last decades of XV century. The common theme is finance and it includes a chapter on how bank houses became bigger and could secure much bigger loans (which allowed bigger states to wage wars, or rich individuals to bid for top titles ;)).
Fun read.