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Out of curiosity, how did the great ancient romans even do math.
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With an abacus of course. Roman numerals were usually only ever used to write down numbers, not to perform arithmetic with. While it may seem natural to perform arithmetic with the same set of symbols we use to write numbers down, this is only natural because you've been taught it, and it wasn't always like this throughout history like for them.
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Paper as we know it was invented around 105 CE in China which was around the time of the Romans.
Romans had access to papyrus paper but it was expensive. Papyrus paper has been found in tombs and was dated to around 2900 BCE. Romans definitely were known to wrote letters using pen and paper. Papyrus paper is paper, so Romans had access to it.
A tabula and stylus were the most common writing implements, wax on a wooden slab written into using a stick.
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Good question. The Romans definetely had to send a few legions, calculate how much food they need a day, where the legion will be at different times, how many replacements etc. The Romans had not formal theory but someone must have done these jobs with math.
