Imagine you're a designer or mathematician living in ancient Rome. Being a curious & imaginative sort, used to exploring wild ideas, you ask yourself: is there some way you can improve on the roman numeral system? Might it be possible to find a better way of representing number?
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Replying to @michael_nielsen
My former professor actually crated a computational model comparing multiplication with Roman numerals vs. Arabic and found "that Roman numerals are not only informationally equivalent to Arabic ones but also computationally similar." http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/Proceedings/2008/pdfs/p2097.pdf …
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Replying to @CXGonzalez_
This is great fun, thanks!
8:03 PM - 18 Sep 2019
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