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Yep. Imagine doing multiplication in Roman numerals :)
by hyh1048576 3y ago
Yep. Imagine doing multiplication in Roman numerals :)
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- mnky9800n 3y agoImagine designing and building an aqueduct with Roman numerals.
- alberto_ol 3y agoI think Romans used the abacus to calculate. https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/234881-how-did-the-romans-calculate/fulltext https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/234881-how-did-the-roma... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_abacus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_abacus
- mnky9800n 3y agoyes but they didn't use it to write down their plans.
- isaacfung 3y agoI think that is partly why LLMs are bad at math and often fail at counting subsequences. Play with the tokenizer and you see long numbers are split into groups of 2 or 3 numbers. https://huggingface.co/spaces/Xenova/the-tokenizer-playground https://huggingface.co/spaces/Xenova/the-tokenizer-playgroun...
- mthtrw 3y agoYou use a counting board rather than paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVB27kKAcRs&t=111 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVB27kKAcRs&t=111 The main advantage of Arabic numerals on paper have is that operations are non destructive and you can restarts a calculation if you lose your place. The main disadvantage is memorising the times table and the amount of scratch paper you need.