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Around the 4th century BCE. Its origin is thought to be that of the Etruscan tally stick method of counting, which is itself thought to derive from the much earlier Greek Attic system. It is not known how the system evolved exactly or at what point the system we use today was first conceived, but the system was well-established by the time of the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43.

The Hindu-Arabic numerals that replaced Roman numerals originates from around the 3rd century BCE, itself evolved from much earlier systems. By the 10th century the system had fully-evolved into the familiar base-10 system we use today, but Roman numerals were still in common use up until the 14th century CE and are still used for ordinal enumeration to this day.

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