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
Imagine you're a designer or mathematician living in the 21st century. Being a curious & imaginative sort, used to exploring wild ideas, you ask yourself: is there some way you can improve on the ARABIC numeral system? :D
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Depending on what you count, I've spent anywhere between a few dozen and a few thousand hours on this
Nothing published on this specific problem, but here's some related stuff: http://cognitivemedium.com/magic_paper/index.html … http://cognitivemedium.com/tat/index.html http://cognitivemedium.com/emm/emm.html
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