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An abacus counting device.

They used a counting table or a table top cloth mark with the letters of the roman alphabet with I for 1, V, for 5, X for 10, L for 50, C for 100, and D for 500 , M for 1,000 after that they bars over M to tell how many M , if it was over 10,000 the put other M down and repeatedly keep putting bars over it until it to reached 10 bar and repeated it again.

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