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>I have recently been asked how the Romans computed with Roman numerals. I]]> Dec 16, 1996 8:27:55 PM Dec 16, 1996 8:27:55 PM jgc@adinet.com.uy 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1376832&tstart=0#1376832 A brief note on this remark:

> Particularly interesting about them is that numbers seem to have
> been]]> Dec 16, 1996 6:45:42 PM Dec 16, 1996 6:45:42 PM MDEAKIN@gizmo.maths.monash.edu.au 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1376831&tstart=0#1376831
1. Menninger has some remarks on the abacus and mentions 2 extant
examples of which one is]]> Dec 16, 1996 6:39:43 PM Dec 16, 1996 6:39:43 PM MDEAKIN@gizmo.maths.monash.edu.au 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1376830&tstart=0#1376830 abacus. This was probably true for most people in ordinary life. Keep]]> Dec 16, 1996 8:39:30 AM Dec 16, 1996 8:39:30 AM jdurham@media-net.net 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1376829&tstart=0#1376829 don't know the answer. Is there a good reference? My guess is that they]]> Dec 14, 1996 10:33:51 PM Dec 14, 1996 10:33:51 PM stein@math.ucdavis.edu 4