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Math Epitaph: Roman Numerals

November 29, 2017Original blog post

Roman Numerals (850 BCE – 1500 CE): 'Ill-suited for multiplication, they died without offspring.'

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-11-29-epitaphs-in-the-graveyard-of-mathematics--math-epitaph-roman-numerals/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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Roman Numerals (850 BCE – 1500 CE): 'Ill-suited for multiplication, they died without offspring.'

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