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According to this, multiplication wasn't so bad: http://turner.faculty.swau.edu/mathematics/materialslibrary/roman/ http://turner.faculty.swau.edu/mathematics/m
by taybin 14y ago
According to this, multiplication wasn't so bad: http://turner.faculty.swau.edu/mathematics/materialslibrary/roman/ http://turner.faculty.swau.edu/mathematics/materialslibrary/...
- e12e 14y agoWithout a table? Just from memory? I think I'd prefer decimal.
- btilly 14y agoActually real Romans did multiplication on an abacus. Reading from Roman numerals to/from an abacus is an incredibly natural operation. In Europe the disappearance of abacuses was directly tied to the rise of Arabic notation.