How were the Romans such good engineers with such a retarded

It's slightly less intuitive but still functional, at least for the sorts of mathematics they were doing.

How is that retarded? It's pretty easy to learn.

>>2715579
It's easy to learn to count with but shit for arithmetic.

Imperial measurement is shit but people have invented a ton of awesome stuff with it. Number and measurement systems are all arbitrary but work well once you've learned them to the point they become second nature.

>>2715571
I read somewhere that ancient Romans did not put a letter at the left to substraction, but up to four at the right to addition.

So 90 was written LXXXX and not XC.

>>2716352
I had a Latin teacher tell me that but my grandfather who knows a lot more Latin than her says that's bullshit so idk

>>2715579
>No zeroes
>No decimals
>No fractions even

Romans were doomed to fail anyway