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minus-squareValiantDust@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·18 days agoI don’t think the ancient Greeks used Roman numerals. Though to be fair, I-III should be easy to understand anyway.
minus-squareLembot_0003@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·18 days agoPhrygia wasn’t Greece, so who knows what numerals they used…
minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·18 days agoI looked it up. Apparently we indeed don’t know what, if any, numerals were used in 8th century BCE Phrygia.
minus-squareValiantDust@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-218 days agoI really made a fool of myself, haven’t I? Well, for what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
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I don’t think the ancient Greeks used Roman numerals. Though to be fair, I-III should be easy to understand anyway.
Phrygia wasn’t Greece, so who knows what numerals they used…
I looked it up. Apparently we indeed don’t know what, if any, numerals were used in 8th century BCE Phrygia.
I bet Doc Brown knows.
Or The Doctor.
I really made a fool of myself, haven’t I?
Well, for what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?