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There was nothing left in the after Math.

I'm just remembering the story told by a Math prof ,about a student who took a Calc exam ,where one problem involved Superman jumping from a building. It seems in exam, the student drew an incredibly -detailed picture of the problem, including a carefull drawing of the cape and costume, windows...

Will it allow you to say you love bacon( the food, not Sir Francis)?

Yes, I never figured out your "Crore" system either.

They're another way , i.e., besides the standard Real numbers, of metrically completing the Rationals, i.e., plugging the holes that allow ##x^2=2## , to have no Rational solution.

Maybe to illustrate the ineffectiveness of such system? As advanced in many ways as they were, they were surprisingly backwards in their number system. Yet somehow they produced some advanced engineering and architectural works that were ahead of their times.

Is there a more modern one that we can use as example?

For contrast, the OP @mark2142 , you may want to consider the likes of Roman Numerals, which are not positional. Try to multiply CLXI by MVII.

It seems you're looking more for history of Mathematics and Arithmetic than Arithmetic itself.

I created " Der Hungert Spielen", for the Hunger Games, but none of my German friends had any idea what that meant.

Kreuze fiction?

*Crucifiction. Though more cruci than fiction.