On Wed 2014-01-15T12:00:47 -0500, Gerard Ashton hath writ: > E. G. Richards in "Mapping Time: The Calendar and its History" mentions the > church was leary of negative numbers, and Hindu-Arabic numerals. He suggests > one possible reason being that most of the people who could do arithmetic > with Roman numerals were clergy, and they didn't want to lose their > near-monopoly.
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