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Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

The widespread and persistent myth that it is easier to multiply and divide with Hindu-Arabic numerals than with Roman ones. | The Renaissance Mathematicus

Random nerdity some here might enjoy.

The babylonian number system is interesting... It makes perfect sense when you remember they were likely using it for counting on clay tablets, where you can easily wipe out and rewrite something. It's something like our still-used jot system (you know, [s]IIII[/s] [s]IIII[/s] III), in groups of ten or six, with each group as a digit, not a sum.



You can see how easy it was to write on the fly. You can fudge an 8 into a 9 with two strokes, from 9 to 10 in one swipe and one stroke, etc.