[LEAPSECS] LEAPSECS Digest, Vol 88, Issue 31

[Steve Allen]

On Wed 2014-01-15T12:00:47 -0500, Gerard Ashton hath writ:

> E. G. Richards in "Mapping Time: The Calendar and its History" mentions the

> church was leary of negative numbers, and Hindu-Arabic numerals. He suggests

> one possible reason being that most of the people who could do arithmetic

> with Roman numerals were clergy, and they didn't want to lose their

> near-monopoly.


a motivation likely persisting in the dramatis personae of this list's issue

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