Re: [lojban] (from lojban-beginners) pi'e

[DougEwell2]

In a message dated 2001-09-22 0:02:39 Pacific Daylight Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> Businesses continued to use Roman numerals for several centuries (because
> addition and subtraction is easier in Roman numerals,

I would be fascinated to see some sort of evidence that addition and 
subtraction is easier in Roman numerals than in Hindu-Arabic ("European") 
numerals.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California