The Roman numeral system needed only 7 symbols while the ancient Greek numeral system needed 27 symbols
Greek System
There was nothing wrong with theGreekand Roman numbering systems. They were complicated. They have beenreplacedby the Arabic numeral system because it is much easier to use.
Digamma. This obsolete letter of the Greek alphabet was primarily used as a Greek numeral.
The Greeks used a combination of addition and subtraction to perform subtraction in their numeral system. They would determine the difference between two numbers by adding the complement (the number that, when added, would equal the base of the numeral system) of the subtrahend (the number being subtracted) to the minuend (the number being subtracted from). This process involved breaking down the numbers into their place values and performing the necessary computations.
No it did not
Greek System
The original Greek numeral system was the Aegean numeral system, which used separate symbols for 1, 10, 100, 100 and 10000. This was replaced by the Attic numeral system, which was quite similar to the Etruscan/Roman numeral system (which derived from it), with separate symbols for 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 and so on. This was then replaced by the Ionic system, which used 27 separate symbols for the units 1-9, the tens 10-90 and the hundreds 100-900.
The numeral system of ancient Greece existed from the Linear A and Linear B periods [2100 - 1900 BCE]. The later known today numeral was created in the 2nd BCE century.
The Greek alphabet is not a Roman numeral!
Greek numbers were first used about 3,000 years ago in ancient Greece. The Greek numeral system, also known as Attic numerals, was developed during this time and was in use until the adoption of the Hindu-Arabic numeral system in the late Middle Ages.
There was nothing wrong with theGreekand Roman numbering systems. They were complicated. They have beenreplacedby the Arabic numeral system because it is much easier to use.
Digamma. This obsolete letter of the Greek alphabet was primarily used as a Greek numeral.
The Greeks used a combination of addition and subtraction to perform subtraction in their numeral system. They would determine the difference between two numbers by adding the complement (the number that, when added, would equal the base of the numeral system) of the subtrahend (the number being subtracted) to the minuend (the number being subtracted from). This process involved breaking down the numbers into their place values and performing the necessary computations.
Only had 1/2 and 1/4. Half was a half moon that concaved to the right and one-foruth was a half moon that concaved to the left
Nowadays it is not used since it is too easily confused with the Latin letters O and o as well as with the numeral 0. It had a value of 70 in the old Greek system.
M' = a myriad or a million ( MM' ten million)
Because it was the most advanced counting system known in ancient times. The Roman numeral system was invented by the strange and mysterious people of the sea who were called Etruscans and they once ruled the Romans.