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Duppers

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5. 🤔 Good question
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 02:49 AM
Feb 2022

This helped them a lot...




The Roman Abacus.

Also, found this very interesting article...
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/191885/how-did-anyone-do-math-in-roman-numerals/



Warning tho, other than this article, that city newspaper is mostly a bird cage rag.

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