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Roman mathematics declined after the middle of the 1st century BCE as the Roman Empire tightened its grip on Greece. The Romans had no use for pure mathematics, only practical applications, and later Christians had even less use for it. Roman numerals were the dominant number system in Europe for trade and administration but were clumsy and inefficient for arithmetic compared to modern decimal systems, as they lacked a symbol for zero and their notation made calculation difficult. Calculations were usually

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Jemuel Villa

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