NEW YORK - Kids LOL and OMG each other all the livelong day, but ask them to decipher the XLVI of this year's Super Bowl and you might as well be talking Greek. They may know what X means, or V and I, ...

The Romans used only seven letters to express all their numbers. The combination of a letter and its position could represent any number. They also used a line above the letter, so the numbering ...

The astronomers, physicists and mathematicians of ancient Greece were true innovators. Ancient Greeks used letters and extra symbols to represent digits But one thing it seems the ancient Greeks did ...