Imagine you're a designer or mathematician living in ancient Rome. Being a curious & imaginative sort, used to exploring wild ideas, you ask yourself: is there some way you can improve on the roman numeral system? Might it be possible to find a better way of representing number?
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Binary numbers were represented in China concurrent with Roman times, though as far as I know, no westerner prior to Liebniz paid attention (I'm probably wrong about that though)
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Romans also knew of the many greek numeral systems https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_numerals …
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