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The Romans did not use place value as they had no numeral for zero. In the Hindu/Arabic system, which most of the world uses, one followed by zero becomes ten and if an additional zero is added it become a hundred. In the Roman system of numerals 1 = I and 10 = X and 100 = C. So, as you can see there are no place values just different numerals for different values.

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