Did the Romans know how to count?

You can count and multiply to hundreds of thousands quite satisfactorily if you’re on your paws or hands, so if you use a decimal or “base of ten” system. IT is a misconception that we use decimal as we have ten digits. We have eight fingers and two fingers. We have plenty of trunks and extensions to use and count, quite satisfactorily. But the decimal system prevailed in most respects, except time. The Summerian hexadecimal or 6 based system seems to have gained time, seconds, minutes, degrees, hours. On an interesting (hopefully) side note – Latin numeral clocks and the number 4 on clocks are always written as “iii” and not “iv”. I have no idea why, maybe someone else has asked or will ask on Quora.

As other answers have pointed out, we have evidence that we are not alone as a species in the ability to count. Indeed, there is plenty of evidence that other species have the ability to handle or predict larger numbers at first glance. We also have solid evidence that our evolutionary cousins ​​also have the ability to count (((Just like the engravings we put on the edge of our bed when we were teenagers. Ah!! was I alone in this???))) and perform other mathematical operations like subtraction, multiplication, and division. Among the remains left by Neanderthals and Cro Magnon, we see sequential markings or engraved bones whose obvious interpretation is “1,2,3 counting” at its simplest, but we also see other markings meaning subtraction and division. We assume that if one can grasp division, they can multiply.

I have a great book in my collection. My copy is a Spanish translation of an original text by Georges Ifrah. I have enjoyed the Spanish translation of this volume for years, and until now I have not tried to find out which is the original language……. (pass the minute like google)…… historia universal de las cifras …..Historia universal de las cifras bingo!!!! English One to Zero: A Universal History of Numbers: Georges Ifrah, Lowell Bair: 9780140099195: Amazon.com: Books

The book begins with the origins of our number system and ends with the most wonderful account.

Evidence of ancient numbering systems is mentioned, including a finger game popular among ancient Mediterranean cultures, i.e. from Phoenician, Egyptian to Minaoan, and Hellenic Greek to Roman…. For over 2,000 years, and possibly more than 3,000 years, people have been playing finger games by multiplying large numbers to make trivial decisions in the same way we (or at least my wife and I) play with paper scissors today.

I hope this question helps. I really have a feeling this is one of the Quora questions best served with a binary answer.

YES NO

THE ANSWER IS YES THE ROMANS CAN COUNT, AND THEY MADE THEIR COUNT VERY SERIOUSLY, WITHOUT ADDING A FEW MORE PARTICIPANTS TO A LEGION OR LESS THAN A DINARI TAXED TO CAESAR AND WITH THE FIFTH CLEOPUZATRAMA WITH KLEOPUZATRAMA.