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What makes the Roman numeral system simpler and more flexible than the Greek?
The Roman numeral system needed only 7 symbols while the ancient Greek numeral system needed 27 symbols
Did Mayans have integers?
Yes. Even so, that the Mayan numeral system was much more complex than the decimal system we use now: Maya numerals were a vigesimal (base twenty) numeral system.
Are Roman numerals from the Romans?
Basically, yes. They were the main system of numbers used by the Romans. There were minority numeral systems in Rome, of which is still unknown.
How did the Greeks subtract using the ancient Greek numeral system?
The Greeks used a combination of addition and subtraction to perform subtraction in their numeral system. They would determine the difference between two numbers by adding the complement (the number that, when added, would equal the base of the numeral system) of the subtrahend (the number being subtracted) to the minuend (the number being subtracted from). This process involved breaking down the numbers into their place values and performing the necessary computations.
In the earliest days of electronic digital computing there was no operating system?
Yes, according to Sr. Charles Johnson Lebron
