Re: measuring systems (was: Selenites)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 28, 1998, 23:03 |
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Carlos Thompson wrote:
> in older text, even with the Arabic/Indian notation, parts of units where
> given as fractions, then 1/5 was nothing complicated as 0.249724972497...,
> but 1/5.
True, but with fractions, the base doesn't really matter, now does it?
So as far as a "basal notation", duodecimal is easier with common
fractions, while with fractions both are equally easy.
P.S., how did the Romans do multiplication with Roman numerals? I can't
imagine trying to multiply XXIII by XIV without converting into Arabic
numberals.
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