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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3177692, member: 19463&quot;]I see Greek numerals as more sensical than what we use today since there was a different figure for each column you did not need to keep columns straight to add the figures.&nbsp; There was no need for zeros just to hold spaces.&nbsp; It did mean you had to learn a few more math facts like B times K equals M but a lot of this is getting used to things from the start.&nbsp; Think how different math would be today if cartoon characters with only three fingers and a thumb had invented counting and places us in base eight instead of ten. I get a kick out of Americans who can&#039;t figure out how so many people in China could possibly learn that impossible language.&nbsp;&nbsp; On the other hand, I am quite good with Greek letters but advanced math leaves me cold.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I had an interesting talk with my grandson&#039;s computer teacher yesterday.&nbsp; He says that there are those in the school that want to allow computer programming classes that now satisfy some math requirements for graduation to count instead as a foreign language.&nbsp; No one knows what to do about computers.&nbsp;&nbsp; Keeping up with advances in any field requires having enough of an open mind to realize that saying l+l in binary (l0), in base ten (2), in Roman numerals (ll)or in Greek (K) all have different answers for a reason.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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