Nothing could have demonstrated the advantage of modern numerals any more than this has. What an awfully cumbersome algorithm shift-and-add is to hand execute.

Nothing could have demonstrated the advantage of modern numerals any more than this has. What an awfully cumbersome algorithm shift-and-add is to hand execute. With things like this (where conversion is trivial), internal use of Roman numerals would be widespread if they were advantageous. They were not, previously. and now the numeral system we use is irrelevant with ubiquitous computers except for readability . I think the evidence is quite strong that Roman numerals are a poorer numeral system.