Re: Counting on yer fingers

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From: Greg Goss
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 1990 21:21

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I doubt that the hand patterns apply much beyond ten.

C is CENT and M is MILLE.  D might be demimille.  I dunno about L.

The positional stuff in roman numerals was inserted much later.

.../greg

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