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Why do people use Arabic numbers rather than Egyptian and Roman numbers?
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∙ 14y ago
So-called Arabic numerals make it possible to perform mathematical operations, like division and subtraction, unlike the clumsy Roman numerals which were only useful for stating numbers, not for crunching them. For one thing, Arab numerals include the zero, which Roman numerals do not.
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