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Advantages: Because it contains a nought figure for place value purposes, it's easier to do mental and written calculations than the Roman numeral system which it replaced.

Disadvantages: Its inability to give exact values to recurring decimals, surds, pi and to give a full list of prime numbers in a logical order.

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