Our "Arabic numerals" were actually invented in India. So the Asians should be OK with math as it is.
As long as we aren't required to use Roman numerals for arithmetic.
Even the ancient Romans did not use Roman numerals for their STEM studies or professions. The engineers of the Roman Empire looked to Greece even for Greek numerals (which were decimal based) for their notable works.
[I once was so puzzled over how they could have engineered such a legacy of structures using Roman numerals that I looked it up and found out otherwise.]