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Ancient Romans developed the Roman numeral system as a tracking and counting system. The various symbols (I, V, X, L, C, D, M, etc) were derived from both the base shorthand notation (the "I" was probably a single stroke originally, designating one) and from the Latin words for the number (such as "C" from "centus", meaning "one hundred").

However, the Roman system has limitations - there are only so many numbers that can be written in Roman numerals and there is no concept of "zero". Shifting from Roman numerals to Arabic (modified Hindu) numerals as is used today throughout the developed world led to significant advancements in mathematics.

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When did Romans come up with Roman numerals?

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