re: #67 Slumbering Behemoth

Heh. I am just now recalling horror stories from folks who had to do math problems in Roman Numerals in college as an exercise from certain teacher.

Not much wrong with learning the history and evolution of mathematics within different cultures, in my opinion. I must admit though, that the term “Ethno-mathematics” sounds friggin’ ridiculous. Ancient methods of mathematics are not tied to ethnicity.

Don’t forget that those are arabic numerals we are using, which makes them immediately suspect…