What are advantages of ancient greek numbers?

Anonymous

∙ 9y ago

Updated: 8/21/2019

They made is more difficult to forge. For example, 27 can easily be forged into a number approx ten times as large by adding a 1 at the end: 271.

But XXVII would need to be changed to CCLXXI - an alteration that would be spotted quite easily.

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