Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On 12/17/24 1:43 AM, rbowman wrote:

On 17 Dec 2024 04:34:14 GMT, Robert Riches wrote:
 

The thought of doing long division in Roman numerals fills me with
dread--let along manually doing finite element analysis.

 I wonder how many little tricks they had? I've worked with carpenters who
didn't know squat about the Pythagorean theorem or Euclidean geometry but
they certainly knew about 3-4-5 triangles and such.

   I used to play with using Roman numerals for lots
   of things. Fun - but let's say I don't rec it for
   any purpose. The Babylonian base-60 system is yet
   another one to avoid ... even though old Greek
   scientists converted their terrible math system
   to Babylonian to do real calx, and then back to
   the crap system for 'publications'.
   The Roman system isn't illogical ... but it's really
   meant for smaller/simpler numbers.
   As for 'tricks' ... builders especially had many,
   usually based on geometry.