[allencoin]

I remember learning Roman numerals in 1st or 2nd grade and finding them to be a lot easier for basic arithmetic.

I mean, all of the examples we used in school to learn basic arithmetic had things like "(picture of 4 apples) + (picture of 2 apples) = (picture of 6 apples)". Roman numerals are kind of a pictograph in a way.

[rtpg]

but if you're in first grade then you do IV + II = IVII...??

To each their own, but I'm unsure of the relative ease of roman numerals

[tree_of_item]

One of the points the article made was that IV wasn't really a thing when the Romans were actually using these numerals.