To: Tax-chick
Ever tried to multiply longhand with the Roman numeral system? XVII x IX? *\;-)
Place value is great because it works with all sorts of systems: base-2 (binary), base-3 (trinary), base-8 (octal), base-16 (hexadecimal)...
1,505 posted on
03/20/2009 8:59:06 AM PDT by
sionnsar
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To: sionnsar
Heh! I think I’ll print out a page of addition with Roman numerals ...
1,506 posted on
03/20/2009 9:02:58 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
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To: sionnsar; Tax-chick; Monkey Face; Dead Corpse; Darksheare
"Ever tried to multiply longhand with the Roman numeral system? XVII x IX?" That's why they invented Roman Logarithms.
All you have to do is look up the log of the first number, add it to the log of the second number, and then look up the anti-log.
The only problem was it wasn't accurate to any Decimal places.
1,525 posted on
03/20/2009 4:28:30 PM PDT by
NicknamedBob
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