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Medieval Math Problems
In his article “Old-Fashioning versus Newfangled: Reading and Writing Numbers, 1200-1500,” math historian John Crossley explains that even by the end of the Middle Ages many writers had a lot of difficulty understanding how numbers worked, and preferred using the older system of Roman numerals.
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Medieval Math Problems
A selection of medieval math problems from The Liber Mahameleth: A 12th-century Mathematical Treatise
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