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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Replying to @michael_nielsen
have you looked at the 3rd century Chinese rod numeral system, a precursor to our modern arabic numeral system? e.ghttps://lampinfoo.com/2012/04/29/have-you-heard-of-jiu-zhang-suanshu-%e4%b9%9d%e7%ab%a0%e7%ae%97%e6%9c%af/ …
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