140. Num8er5
The Allusionist
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The Romans Didn't Use Numbers for Calculation
The roman numerals were not always the letters that they are now, i, v, x, l, c, d and m. In fact, m is actually the latest one to really become firmly a letter. But they weren't used for calculations. Iht they weren't use for arithmetic. They weren't. And so these were abstract symbols that then later became accommodated to the alphabetic system. So there wa no reason that it had to do so, but it did.
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