Show Roman System of Figuring Counting on tho fingers was a regular reg-ular system for tho young Romano They would make eighteen movements move-ments with tho left baud for tho numbers num-bers below 100 and eighteen with tho right hand for those above Two kinds of counting machines called an abacus wero also used Ono was a beard strewn with sand on which Geometrical figures wero drawn The other was a frame with balls moved in grooves to represent figures with a special contrivance for doing fractions frac-tions As teachers were not vory pa tiQat In those days arithmetic might be said to have been learned less by rulo than by ferrule |