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NUMBER STORIES
thought that the old Roman numerals, which were commonly used in Germany at that time, would continue to be used.
A PAGE FROM JAKOB KÖBEL’S BOOK
This shows Jakob’s strange way of writing fractions
So Jakob learned how to write the Arabic fraction, but he then did a very funny thing — he made up his mind that he would write an Arabic fraction with Roman numerals, and you can imagine how strange it must have looked.
No Roman ever wrote a fraction like that, and no one ever put such an awkward fraction
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