Re: Metric system (was: Re: SPF)
On Wed, 04 Jul 2007, Anders Breindahl wrote:
> On 200707032243, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Tue, 03 Jul 2007, Anders Breindahl wrote:
> > > And therefore, the society as a whole. The Roman numerals were totally
> > > great for society -- that's why children can do calculations in their
> > > heads nowadays, that Greek scientists couldn't even do in writing, back
> > > then.
> >
> > You mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu-Arabic_numeral_system, no? The
> > Romans were not even close.
>
> No, I was being sarcastic. The Roman numerals sucked, and the Arabic
> numerals helped the world forward -- by a large margin, as the example
> illustrates.
Oh, I see.
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Henrique Holschuh
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