9 points | by aebtebeten 3 days ago ago
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Surrey, interactive visualiser
https://web.archive.org/web/20260115155955/https://r-knott.s...
It took 200 years for Western Arabic numerals to take over accounting from Roman numerals.
That's a cautionary tale of entrenched interest if I ever heard one.
Surrey, interactive visualiser
https://web.archive.org/web/20260115155955/https://r-knott.s...
It took 200 years for Western Arabic numerals to take over accounting from Roman numerals.
That's a cautionary tale of entrenched interest if I ever heard one.