| 1. | By 1950 BC, this was a positional notation system.
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| 2. | The Hindu Arabic system is designed for positional notation in a decimal system.
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| 3. | The ancient Chinese used a similar positional notation.
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| 4. | The Hindu Arabic numeral system includes positional notation to determine the value for any numeral.
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| 5. | This positional notation however appears on two unrelated sets of rune stones allegedly discovered in North America.
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| 6. | Greek numerals were used by Archimedes, Diophantus and others in a positional notation not very different from ours.
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| 7. | In both cases, this origin resulted in values that used a decimal base but did not include positional notation.
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| 8. | The Roman numerals system remained in common use in Europe until positional notation came into common use in the 16th century.
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| 9. | In a more developed form, positional notation also uses a vinculum ( a horizontal line placed over the repeating digits ).
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| 10. | The authors of the North American rune stones do not seem to understand the positional notation or the concept of with little consistency.
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