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Faience?! LOL! She's waaaaaay out of your league :) Hurry up and get hitched before she changes her mind! Congratulations!!! (Herd of baby PolyMaths, when?)
I know that Spartacus gods of the arena does not contain Latin but the way they speak would be something you could Make a video about because the way they speak is very compelling to people and there isn't a lot of documentation on itMake a video about because the way they speak is very compelling to people and there isn't a lot of documentation on it
If you are interested in this, there are two other things to investigate. 1. Futures traders when they were in open outcry pits, had price, volume and buy and sell hand signals. You could interview one, for an interesting video. 2. Why 12 for counting systems. ie. one to twelve have special names? Well you have 12 phalanges on your 4 fingers, and you can point to them using your thumb. So you can count to 12. With two hands, you can count to a gross. 144.
@@jugheadjed Lovely comment, but I believe it should be under the video directly, and not as a response to my rather irrelevant comment. I'm sure Luke appreciates it either way, though.
I did indeed win the jackpot: Irene is the most talented, charming, brilliant, sweetest, warmest, most loving person I’ve ever met. As my beauty fades, I hope she will continue to appreciate my off-beat humor and love of Star Trek.
Wait Luke is getting married!? I'm so happy for you! Your vids have helped me a lot in learning Latin and Ancient Greek for the past few years. I wish the best of your marriage !
I came for the number lesson, cringed at the self-mortification, stayed to see a cute, engaged couple laugh about the fiancé's lack of finger control, remained amazed at both of your abilities to understand Italian and English.
Luke, there is a tendon that can be shared or separated between the smallest two fingers although movement might be trainable. I have highly independent movement from decades of playing musical instruments; nevertheless, my left hand has a bit of the community curling that you demonstrated for us all.
I guess you are a string player 🙂 -- pianists practice with both hands. But likely Romans got the same practice just by making these signs since childhood.
Oh thats the reason why I can bend my fingers rather easily independently while on all other limbs I'm rather stiff. Only cus I practiced recorder (flute) as a kid.
Attempting to do these signs with my fingers was harder than any riff I’ve played on guitar. I simply can’t manipulate my fingers in such a way. Imagine the ancient art/poetry/jokes that could have referenced these symbols and they’d go right over our heads.
Luke have you considered doing a video on the traditional English pronunciation of Latin? I think it’s an interesting subject and you and other Latin speakers will probably find it both jarring to the ears and insightful regarding why so many Latin loan words are so differently pronounced in English. Hope you’re well 👊🏻❤
Ho provato anch'io a fare i numeri con la mano mentre guardavo il video! È stato molto divertente, con la mano destra riesco a fare quasi tutti i numeri mentre con la mano sinistra mi rimane molto più difficile! Video super interessante, bravi Luke e Irene ❤
You two are my favorite UA-cam couple.🌹 Interesting video, but I'll never master this kind of counting. I'd do better learning more of the modern Italian hand gestures! 😄
Many cultures have used Base-12 counting systems by counting the knuckle bones/segments on one's non-dominant hand using the thumb as a "stylus". There are 4 fingers, with 3 segments each. Hence the use of "12". We still use vestiges of this when we buy things by the "dozen"/"gross(12x12)". It's very "handy" for various Astronomical/Astrological calculations, as well (12 Houses of Zodiac, etc...)
Luke, thats a really funny coincidence. Ive been to a small ancient Rome festival today (hosted in my country), Ive delivered a lecture about roman finger counting, like, several hours ago. Ive spent DAYS figuring out how to bend these fingers properly, how to count with right hand and so on, that was a real challenge. And here I am, coming home exhausted, open the UA-cam and see your new video about ROMAN COUNTING. Omg what a frustration, why couldnt you publish it a week earlier at least 😭 Nevertheless, thx for the great video. The experience WAS very painful, especially for my students heh 😅
@@polyMATHY_Luke hm well since you asked.. Actually yes :) You suggest thats using three fingers for thousands is more logical, because of the "view" of the number, from the observer. I decided otherwise, its seems more logical that the three fingers are for the hundreds and other for thousands, because you just use your right hand as multiplier by a hundred. E.g., left hand 4 = right hand 400, left hand 40 = right hand 4000 Maybe mistaken tho, but afaiu its two different opinions from two different ancient dudes, and we dont know for sure which is true :)
Luke: Wow, you're so much better at this than me! I guess it takes a Roman to teach us these things... Irene: **laughs in Italian** It's a cute relationship ❤
Another Roman, of course. Guido, who moved to Arrezo in Tuscany, went to the monastery and was appalled with the insanely out of tune choir. He decided he had enough with the neumes squiggles indicating up and down, and used his finger to make a notation giving each pitch a specific name, thus creating the solfege scale we use today. And fingers continues to be a useful form of communication.😉
Mi sono impegnato, ci sono riuscito, ho dimenticato tutto 18 secondi dopo. Incredibilmente interessante quanto complicato possa essere contare. PS. credo di aver fatto tombola ad un certo punto.
Just like musicians (who practice this point) have more independent finger motion, I'd expect Romans who have practiced this counting since childhood to have no problem making the gestures.
I find some of these signs (moderately) easy, but many are a bit painful or just not possible without manhandling some fingers. I suppose if I was a guitarist or Roman (like the fair Irene), I might find the signs easy. Anyhow, great video as always.
We taught this is sophomore year gymnasium Latin class. I completely forgot it. You're very cute couple. You're starting to look like 1800s Englishman tho. 😊
@@monalisadavinci7076 I'm not saying it as a bad thing, just so he knows. We're on good terms and he's extremely nice person. Why would anyone see looking as an English gentleman as a bad thing. I'm just telling him no one will believe him he's a fiance of a beautiful Latina (and Rome girls are as Latina as it gets, it's literally named after them). Hehehe. Not because of geography. More because of history. He'll look like 1830s archeologist who just discovered Tutmoses (not related to Moses, it just means Tut's son), and no one will believe him, unless they think he discovered Star Gate as well and snatched her in 1960s from a Vespa.
I think I had it a little easier than Luke, but it was definitely painful for me. Especially since 1) I'm right-handed so 1-9 sucked & 2) if I'm not mistaken, the ring & pinky fingers share a nerve or tendon or something like that, so moving one independent from the other is challenging. And here I thought my Vulcan salute was impressive XD. Also, congrats to both of you; you seem to be very happy together & I hope you guys stay that way.
Have you ever wondered how wild it is that we don’t have written Roman music from back then!!!!!???? Those guys had practically the same furniture as us, same plumbing facilities, even pipe organ musical instruments with bellows…
not the same, but when I was little, my father sneakily taught me about binary by teaching me to count to 1023 on my hands. (each finger representing a one or a zero) I quickly noticed that the middle finger was four, the other middle finger was 128, and both middle fingers was 132.
Wow, so many of these are downright painful! Luke, I can't do most of them either, and it hurts just trying. Apparently, ancient Romans had contortionist's fingers and preferred this torture to the crazy idea of representing each number by an equivalent number of raised fingers, blasphemy I know. However, realizing that the decimal system hadn't been invented, the concept of showing a number for each digit using positional notation would've been incomprehensible to them.
Video suggestion...have you ever noticed we say Latin abnormally? Both natives and classicists of Spanish and Latin do this. They avoid the pronunciation rules of their languages when they say this word. You can clearly hear them say Latin and Latino with an æ sound instead of an 'a' sound that fits the pronunciation rules for their language. They say lætin and lætino. With Spanish it's really noticeable as they tend to stress the syllable. It's a weird phenomenon that they only do with this one word. And don't say they don't, they do just listen. You can even see the mouth formation for these words when they do it, it's clearly an æ formation.
3:20 Apart from the fact that chisen bop is using the same semi-pentarithmic system as Roman numerals, it is also more comfortable. Making 1 look different from 7 seems weirder than the standard version of G on a guitar.
Having read the article over at LacusCurtius a few years back and developed an interest in _computatio Romana_ for a while now, I'm fairly sure that you can just bend the middle joint ninety degrees for 1-6, and then the bottom joint “normally” for 7-9. With a bit of practice it's easy to do, except for when I'm doing 50 where I'm completely unable to curl my left thumb without also curling my left index... Oddly enough, the right thumb and index do not have that problem, and I can do 500 just fine!
I learned the Korean method (지산법 jisanbeop) from TV as a child and used it all the time since it was really useful. You can count to 9 on one hand (thumb = 5, other fingers = 1 each), and 99 on both hands. But when I learned about the Roman method, I excitedly made the switch. 99 on one hand and 9999 on both hands is absolutely impressive, especially given the fact that it was actually a widely-used technique in the past.
I’ve been playing the piano all my life but I still can’t independently bend my forth and fifth fingers. Numbers 1 and 4 are completely impossible for me to do.
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Faience?! LOL! She's waaaaaay out of your league :) Hurry up and get hitched before she changes her mind! Congratulations!!! (Herd of baby PolyMaths, when?)
🙂🤗❤️❤️💐 to beautiful couple in the video!
Of course the Romans learned this already as children. It becomes very difficult when you're an adult and your brain is more "rigid".
I know that Spartacus gods of the arena does not contain Latin but the way they speak would be something you could Make a video about because the way they speak is very compelling to people and there isn't a lot of documentation on itMake a video about because the way they speak is very compelling to people and there isn't a lot of documentation on it
If you are interested in this, there are two other things to investigate.
1. Futures traders when they were in open outcry pits, had price, volume and buy and sell hand signals. You could interview one, for an interesting video.
2. Why 12 for counting systems. ie. one to twelve have special names? Well you have 12 phalanges on your 4 fingers, and you can point to them using your thumb. So you can count to 12. With two hands, you can count to a gross. 144.
Luke's fingers are cramping up from all the moustache-twirling
True
She's jaw-droppingly beautiful, congrats on meeting such a gorgeous lady, you seem to love being around each other too, which is cute.
@@jugheadjed Lovely comment, but I believe it should be under the video directly, and not as a response to my rather irrelevant comment. I'm sure Luke appreciates it either way, though.
Mwa, ha ha ha ha! When that train arrives, nothing will be able to save you, my dear.
All of Luke's channels should become unapologetically multilingual. There should always be many languages being spoken at all times
Si!
d'accord!
വളരെ ശരി
@@rexsceleratorum1632 لا أستطيع أن أتفوق الهندية
@@manfredconnor3194Un plaer de trobar-me un altre català ací
If it's always multilingual and at random then literally nobody can complain lol
Everyone speaks everything > universal language
When an ancient Roman asked you to give him a hand, he was actually asking to borrow your calculator
Man, Luke really won the jackpot.
😂 nah man, marriage is tough. Beauty fades.
@@marcusholbert2525its only tough if you marry the wrong person 😉
@@keepersofthegrid Yes, and I wouldn't say beauty fades, since it is in the eye of the beholder. Someone you love is always beautiful to you.
@@Latrina_Bidet_IRS_Enfrocer He did! 🙋♀️
I did indeed win the jackpot: Irene is the most talented, charming, brilliant, sweetest, warmest, most loving person I’ve ever met. As my beauty fades, I hope she will continue to appreciate my off-beat humor and love of Star Trek.
Wait Luke is getting married!? I'm so happy for you! Your vids have helped me a lot in learning Latin and Ancient Greek for the past few years. I wish the best of your marriage !
I came for the number lesson, cringed at the self-mortification, stayed to see a cute, engaged couple laugh about the fiancé's lack of finger control, remained amazed at both of your abilities to understand Italian and English.
Congratulations on your engagement to a Roman, Luke 🏛💞
Also, live long and prosper 🖖 and thank you for the fascinating lesson on ancient Roman finger counting 👏
Roman soldier: *walks into a bar*
Roman Soldier: *raises two fingers*
Roman soldier: “five beers please”
The rest of the Germanic pub: 🤨
More like "Bend the middle finger" :D
Luke, there is a tendon that can be shared or separated between the smallest two fingers although movement might be trainable. I have highly independent movement from decades of playing musical instruments; nevertheless, my left hand has a bit of the community curling that you demonstrated for us all.
Cool! Good to know. Very interesting
I agree with the instrument training. I can easily do the counting on my left hand but not my right hand even though I'm right-handed.
I guess you are a string player 🙂 -- pianists practice with both hands. But likely Romans got the same practice just by making these signs since childhood.
Oh thats the reason why I can bend my fingers rather easily independently while on all other limbs I'm rather stiff. Only cus I practiced recorder (flute) as a kid.
There is a Method in India 🇮🇳 known as the Vedic method of Counting pretty similar to it.
All the best wishes from India! 🙏🏻
Irene: *talks in Italian*
Luke: Yes... Right... M-hm... Correct... Me too... I agree... That's right...
Sounds like a marriage. 😅
Attempting to do these signs with my fingers was harder than any riff I’ve played on guitar. I simply can’t manipulate my fingers in such a way.
Imagine the ancient art/poetry/jokes that could have referenced these symbols and they’d go right over our heads.
Indeed! It seems to be a specific kind of flexibility rather than a general one
Luke have you considered doing a video on the traditional English pronunciation of Latin? I think it’s an interesting subject and you and other Latin speakers will probably find it both jarring to the ears and insightful regarding why so many Latin loan words are so differently pronounced in English. Hope you’re well 👊🏻❤
Ho provato anch'io a fare i numeri con la mano mentre guardavo il video! È stato molto divertente, con la mano destra riesco a fare quasi tutti i numeri mentre con la mano sinistra mi rimane molto più difficile! Video super interessante, bravi Luke e Irene ❤
Grazie, Ilaria! Brava! Io ovviamente non ce la facevo neanche ahah
You're a lucky man, Luke!
This is so fun! And congratulations on your engagement! You two are adorable!
Congratulations!!!!! All the best to yall.
Lovely family blog you’re having out there, Luke! Thanks for the video
Good luck you two. Luke, you’re a brave, brave man.
You two are my favorite UA-cam couple.🌹 Interesting video, but I'll never master this kind of counting. I'd do better learning more of the modern Italian hand gestures! 😄
Thank you Amy! ❤
A beard a mustache and a Hawaiian shirt Luke’s got style.
It is a bit Magnum PI... :D
Hang loose Hawaii 🌺🌴🍍
It is not a simple system but it has a clear logic
Great video for Latin and Italian. Congratulations Luke😊
Many cultures have used Base-12 counting systems by counting the knuckle bones/segments on one's non-dominant hand using the thumb as a "stylus". There are 4 fingers, with 3 segments each. Hence the use of "12". We still use vestiges of this when we buy things by the "dozen"/"gross(12x12)". It's very "handy" for various Astronomical/Astrological calculations, as well (12 Houses of Zodiac, etc...)
Also very easy to use in base 10 by simply skipping the pinky. The advantage of the Roman system though is counting on one hand
Sorry if I misinterpreted, but if you're suggesting that you can't count on one hand using the method described above, you're wrong
@@isaacbruner65 Not up to 99, unless I'm missing something
Thanks to both Luke Rainier and Irene the Precious for this fun lecture. Yes we do translate the names if we are to go the full Roman way.
Yeah, I was thinking, is that her name, or just her description.
omg she’s beautiful. thanks for your always interesting and educational videos Luke 💜
0:52 _"Is it because you're roman ?"_
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Because you’re Roman. I think she just laughs and yes him to death lol
This is so funny! And SO complicated!! Good job at doing this video together 👍
Luke, thats a really funny coincidence. Ive been to a small ancient Rome festival today (hosted in my country), Ive delivered a lecture about roman finger counting, like, several hours ago. Ive spent DAYS figuring out how to bend these fingers properly, how to count with right hand and so on, that was a real challenge. And here I am, coming home exhausted, open the UA-cam and see your new video about ROMAN COUNTING. Omg what a frustration, why couldnt you publish it a week earlier at least 😭
Nevertheless, thx for the great video. The experience WAS very painful, especially for my students heh 😅
Sorry it came too late! But good for you for doing that; it’s a fun challenge. Did you come to different conclusions than we?
@@polyMATHY_Luke hm well since you asked.. Actually yes :) You suggest thats using three fingers for thousands is more logical, because of the "view" of the number, from the observer. I decided otherwise, its seems more logical that the three fingers are for the hundreds and other for thousands, because you just use your right hand as multiplier by a hundred. E.g., left hand 4 = right hand 400, left hand 40 = right hand 4000
Maybe mistaken tho, but afaiu its two different opinions from two different ancient dudes, and we dont know for sure which is true :)
Your moustache is perfect
Luke: Wow, you're so much better at this than me! I guess it takes a Roman to teach us these things...
Irene: **laughs in Italian**
It's a cute relationship ❤
This should be taught to children for sure.
There is a weird palm finger system for musical notes too (early Renaissance), it uses the folding lines on articulations.
Another Roman, of course. Guido, who moved to Arrezo in Tuscany, went to the monastery and was appalled with the insanely out of tune choir. He decided he had enough with the neumes squiggles indicating up and down, and used his finger to make a notation giving each pitch a specific name, thus creating the solfege scale we use today. And fingers continues to be a useful form of communication.😉
Mi sono impegnato, ci sono riuscito, ho dimenticato tutto 18 secondi dopo.
Incredibilmente interessante quanto complicato possa essere contare.
PS. credo di aver fatto tombola ad un certo punto.
I like to imagine he learned all about Latin just to impress her, then realized his true love was all the scary conjugations he made along the way.
Just like musicians (who practice this point) have more independent finger motion, I'd expect Romans who have practiced this counting since childhood to have no problem making the gestures.
This looked fun, and was informative.
Wow, Luke, you have won the lottery !!!!!
Love the mustache
It's cool how even in Italian Luke sometimes goes back to the retracted S.
21:16 sapevamo tutti che si sarebbe arrivati a questo 😂
I have chubby fingers. This was torture.
This a such a cute couple. Hope your marriage is fantastic as you both are!
The Japanese and/or Chinese have also a different way to sign numbers until today.
Btw, I loved your ’stache! 😉😍
damn man, that mustache suits you well!
My fingers were not ready for this video 😂
I wonder why this system went out of fashion...
Shit, these Romans have been doing them gang signs for thousands of years.
I find some of these signs (moderately) easy, but many are a bit painful or just not possible without manhandling some fingers. I suppose if I was a guitarist or Roman (like the fair Irene), I might find the signs easy. Anyhow, great video as always.
these two are possibly the most majestic couple ive ever seen
Modus extraneus ad signare numeros cum digitis. Sic computatio difficilis est.
Cōnsentiō.
We taught this is sophomore year gymnasium Latin class. I completely forgot it.
You're very cute couple. You're starting to look like 1800s Englishman tho. 😊
All he needs is a top hat 🎩 in a Hawaiian pattern!
@@monalisadavinci7076 I'm not saying it as a bad thing, just so he knows. We're on good terms and he's extremely nice person. Why would anyone see looking as an English gentleman as a bad thing.
I'm just telling him no one will believe him he's a fiance of a beautiful Latina (and Rome girls are as Latina as it gets, it's literally named after them). Hehehe. Not because of geography. More because of history. He'll look like 1830s archeologist who just discovered Tutmoses (not related to Moses, it just means Tut's son), and no one will believe him, unless they think he discovered Star Gate as well and snatched her in 1960s from a Vespa.
The way you speak in your native languages but still communicating perfectly fine reminds me of my parents ahaha it’s the cutest thing ever
I can do them effortlessly. I must be Octavian's lost bloodline.
I love how they speak their native languages to each other. Luke understands Italian, and Irene understands English, so why not :D
I almost broke my fingers. aaahhh
Congratulations ❤🥂🎉
I think I had it a little easier than Luke, but it was definitely painful for me. Especially since 1) I'm right-handed so 1-9 sucked & 2) if I'm not mistaken, the ring & pinky fingers share a nerve or tendon or something like that, so moving one independent from the other is challenging. And here I thought my Vulcan salute was impressive XD. Also, congrats to both of you; you seem to be very happy together & I hope you guys stay that way.
It was amazing, great exercise for guitar player 😊
That was fun. I love that Star Trek episode by the way, although I understand many don’t share that opinion.
We also love that episode!
"Facciamo finta che non ho detto niente. Poi la taglierai..." 😅
"Ok. Sure." 😎
Haha yeah I showed her that before I published it, she thought it was funny too
Ahahahahahaah! Povera illusa! 😂
As a guitarplayer it was surpisingly easy, and easier on the left hand than the right
I like it when she speaks in Italian and he answers in English. Like a conversation between Han Solo and Chewbacca.
Absolutely. (I’m Chewbacca.)
your fiancé is hot af my dude, congrats!
I suppose "hot" is the modern term for beautiful, in classical times it would be considered a sexist word. 😂
Have you ever wondered how wild it is that we don’t have written Roman music from back then!!!!!???? Those guys had practically the same furniture as us, same plumbing facilities, even pipe organ musical instruments with bellows…
in theory it looks really practical because you can show a person a large number instantly from a distance. in practice it is painful.
Yeah it’s a really neat thing; I’m glad as much information about it was preserved as we have.
Nice Moustache ! It is always a pleasure to watach your videos !
Valete !
I bit like the the musical notation from vandal Africa that came through Spain to Europe in the medieval times, Guido's fingers.
Seriously, how did they do it? My fingers are broken! 😂
Magnífico... buenísimo... ignoraba todo sobre este antiguo sistema numérico-manual....❤...➗️➖️➕️✖️✌️
You have the Roman advantage. Well done. Grszie mille. Ciao.
As a guitarist this was really easy for me :D
not the same, but when I was little, my father sneakily taught me about binary by teaching me to count to 1023 on my hands. (each finger representing a one or a zero)
I quickly noticed that the middle finger was four, the other middle finger was 128, and both middle fingers was 132.
I can't use number 1. Lol
Wow! Congratulations.
I dismissed it at first but now I've committed the system to memory, it's really cool
Awesome! Well done
Voi siete fantastici e il video interessante! ... 1931😅😅
Grazie, Maria!
With the potential for confusion, this was clearly devised by someone who just wanted to cause fights in the marketplace.
Wow, so many of these are downright painful! Luke, I can't do most of them either, and it hurts just trying. Apparently, ancient Romans had contortionist's fingers and preferred this torture to the crazy idea of representing each number by an equivalent number of raised fingers, blasphemy I know. However, realizing that the decimal system hadn't been invented, the concept of showing a number for each digit using positional notation would've been incomprehensible to them.
I love that 'tache, Luke!
Video suggestion...have you ever noticed we say Latin abnormally? Both natives and classicists of Spanish and Latin do this. They avoid the pronunciation rules of their languages when they say this word. You can clearly hear them say Latin and Latino with an æ sound instead of an 'a' sound that fits the pronunciation rules for their language. They say lætin and lætino. With Spanish it's really noticeable as they tend to stress the syllable. It's a weird phenomenon that they only do with this one word. And don't say they don't, they do just listen. You can even see the mouth formation for these words when they do it, it's clearly an æ formation.
3:20 Apart from the fact that chisen bop is using the same semi-pentarithmic system as Roman numerals, it is also more comfortable.
Making 1 look different from 7 seems weirder than the standard version of G on a guitar.
Kinda reminds me of East Asian one handed counting
I don't think there are any of these I *can't* do, but way too many of them are painful!
That's incredibly efficient
Really painful 😅
Having read the article over at LacusCurtius a few years back and developed an interest in _computatio Romana_ for a while now, I'm fairly sure that you can just bend the middle joint ninety degrees for 1-6, and then the bottom joint “normally” for 7-9. With a bit of practice it's easy to do, except for when I'm doing 50 where I'm completely unable to curl my left thumb without also curling my left index... Oddly enough, the right thumb and index do not have that problem, and I can do 500 just fine!
The ancient rizz God has showed himself again, rejoice people
Questo è divertentissimo! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I learned the Korean method (지산법 jisanbeop) from TV as a child and used it all the time since it was really useful. You can count to 9 on one hand (thumb = 5, other fingers = 1 each), and 99 on both hands. But when I learned about the Roman method, I excitedly made the switch. 99 on one hand and 9999 on both hands is absolutely impressive, especially given the fact that it was actually a widely-used technique in the past.
my dude that Moustache is GLORIOUS
Could you do something on the foreskin in antiquity? Would be really interested, cannot possibly overstate my level of interest (off the charts!).
i could listen to her talk all day long
Irene is one lucky lady (jk you both are very lucky to have each other)
I should say "blessed" but I want to keep that heart 🤣
Counting in Roman hurts :(
St. Bede pray for us
I’ve been playing the piano all my life but I still can’t independently bend my forth and fifth fingers. Numbers 1 and 4 are completely impossible for me to do.
Love your new look, with this moustache you look like D'Annunzio
I could imagine you convincing your wife to dress in tunic a few times a week and drink wine with you in a reclining posture 😀😝
Carpe diem 🍇🍷🍇🍷
The Romans did a lot of cool things, but man that way of counting is truly horrendous I'm glad the Goths saved the west from that torture