The Ancient Romans didn’t count on their fingers like modern Europeans or Americans. Instead, the dactylonomy of the Romans counted was most unusual, and I bet you’ll find challenging if not IMPOSSIBLE to master! In this video, my fiancée @irenelapreziosa and I do our best to learn how to count from 1-99 on ONE HAND in the Ancient Roman fashion. Since Irene is a modern Roman, will she have an advantage in this game? Then we try to count from 100-9999 on the other hand! It’s a crazy system. Try your best to learn with us, and write in the comments with how you did.
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Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart
Some sources consulted:
Luca Pacioli’s Summa de Arithmetica (1494): #/media/File:
History of Information article on Ancient Roman finger counting:
Symphosius Riddle 96:
Juvenal Saturae 10: @1#9
Public forum conversation on Ancient Roman finger counting:
A blog post on Ancient Roman finger counting:
Tookmund article on Ancient Roman finger counting:
0:00 Intro
0:42 1-9
4:00 Ancient Riddle
4:50 10-90
8:13 Ancient Language Institute
9:36 Following the written descriptions
10:00 Capt. Kirk levels of frustration
14:38 100-9000
15:42 Learn Italian with @irenelapreziosa
15:59 Our attempt at being serious
20:00 Juvenal Saturae 10
20:34 Putting it all together!
23:42 Conclusion
24:07 Outtakes
Watch Irene teach me how to make the Italian hand gestures on her channel here: 🇮🇹 Leave her a nice comment that I sent you!
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