THIS volume offers to the reader “a statement of the knowledge which we possess of the numeration, calendar, and astronomical attainments of (a) wonderful people.” The Numeration, Calendar ...

Roman numerals are a numeral system which was used in Ancient Rome. It uses letters instead of numbers to represent values. You may have seen Roman numerals on clocks and on TV or film credits.

In the remote Arctic almost 30 years ago, a group of Inuit middle school students and their teacher invented the Western Hemisphere's first new numeral system in more than a century. The ...