:Note that Roman numerals are a decimal system, but they do not use positional notation and lack a zero, making arithmetic more difficult, but talk ) 03 : 07, 17 October 2011 ( UTC)
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Additionally, this method is the least abstract way to count using two hands that reflects the concept of positional notation, as the movement from one position to the next is done by switching from one hand to another.
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On the other hand, once people did have positional notation, they could also do calculations like multiplication and division using the long multiplication that I hope is still taught in schools today, and doing the additions mentally.
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Before positional notation became standard, simple additive systems ( sign-value notation ) such as Roman numerals were used, and accountants in ancient Rome and during the Middle Ages used the abacus or stone counters to do arithmetic.
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Of particular note is the use in Chinese mathematics of a decimal positional notation system, the so-called " rod numerals " in which distinct ciphers were used for numbers between 1 and 10, and additional ciphers for powers of ten.
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This is a positional notation, so for example the digit 5 in 500 contributes ten times as much as the 5 in 50, and the 5 in 0.05 contributes one tenth as much as the 5 in 0.5.
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Because of space constraints, instead of digits some solvers use a positional notation, where a potential numerical value is represented by a mark in a particular part of the cell, which makes it easy to place several potential values into a single cell.
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In his " Book of Algorithms on Practical Arithmetic ", John of Seville provides one of the earliest known descriptions of Indian positional notation, whose introduction to Europe is usually associated with the book " Liber Abaci " by Fibonacci:
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In fact, with positional notation, a nonnegative integer is represented by a sequence of numerical digits, and an integer is larger than another one if either it has more digits ( ignoring leading zeroes ) or the number of digits is the same and the first digit which differs is larger.
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:( My message begins here . ) The direction of reading and writing varies in mathematical notation ( for example, with continued fractions, exponentiation, positional notation [ see under " Notation " ], derivatives, integrals, summations, and talk ) 20 : 23, 2 June 2009 ( UTC)
