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The Romans used base ten just like we do, but zero wasn't invented until much later.
So they didn't write their numbers the same way.
They used letters to represent the numbers.
I = 1
V = 5
X = 10
L = 50
C = 100
D = 500
M = 1000
To write 3, they marked down III or three ones.
To write 4, they marked down IV, or 'one less than five'.
To write 49, they marked IL, or 'one less than fifty'.
To write 106, they wrote CVI, or 'one hundred plus five plus one'.
And so on.
(The concept of zero was invented, apparently independently, by both the Maya and the Babylonians. The first recorded use of a '0' to represent zero wasn't until the 7th century CE. It was introduced to the Europeans by Arab scholars a couple of hundred years later.)
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