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[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Fun fact, the Romans would never have labeled their abacuses like this. It would have made calculating very difficult; they effectively worked with modern numbers in bead form, and then used the famous numeral system just to record the results.

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