How did Romans do (advanced) math using Roman numerals?
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They didn’t.
Most of the sophisticated math was done with Greek numerals, not Latin numbers. Greek numbers aren’t as nice as arabic numbers, but it’s a proper base 10 system rather than the goofy hodgepodge base 5 you see on the back of movie cases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_numerals
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