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Yes, I never figured out your "Crore" system either.

In Indian 161 by 1007= 1,62,127. In Roman it would be CCC…(MVll times)LLL…(MVll times)XXX…(MVll times)lll…(MVll times).

They're another way , i.e., besides the standard Real numbers, of metrically completing the Rationals, i.e., plugging the holes that...

Maybe to illustrate the ineffectiveness of such system? As advanced in many ways as they were, they were surprisingly backwards in their...

Is there a more modern one that we can use as example?

Thank you very much, your answer was very thorough

For contrast, the OP @mark2142 , you may want to consider the likes of Roman Numerals, which are not positional. Try to multiply CLXI by...

It seems you're looking more for history of Mathematics and Arithmetic than Arithmetic itself.

Thanks for all of your time!

I created " Der Hungert Spielen", for the Hunger Games, but none of my German friends had any idea what that meant.

Kreuzifizierung. Silly, since it isn't a word, but I thought of it and simply created an English transliteration.