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Rome counted like this: I, V, X, L, C, D, M.
No zero. No place value — the position of a symbol barely matters, only which symbols appear and in what combination.
Try multiplying MDCLXVI by XLIV in your head. Now try 1666 × 44. The second one is not just easier — it is a genuinely different kind of thinking.
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