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The ciphers of the monks: a forgotten number-notation of the Middle AgesKing, 2001
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This is the first comprehensive study of an ingenious number-notation from the Middle Ages that was devised by monks and mainly used in monasteries. A simple notation for representing any number up to 99 by a single cipher, somehow related to an ancient Greek …
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