I believe that the ancient Greeks used them for mathematics!
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Tradition, and also because Roman numerals are more recognisable than ancient Greek numerals.
Roman numerals were used for writing numbers in ancient rome.
Roman numerals are called so because they were used by the ancient Romans as their numbering system. The Romans adapted and modified the Etruscan numerals, which in turn were derived from the ancient Greek numeral system. The use of these numerals continued throughout the Roman Empire and have since become a widely recognized system for representing numbers in various contexts.
No, the Ancient Greek number system did not use zero as a place value, or number for that matter.
The numbers 1221 in Roman numerals is MCCXXI. Roman numerals is the numeric system that was used in ancient Rome and is still used on some clocks and watches.