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They did not need a zero. The number zero was invented by the Indians (not sure when). But when Romans wanted to write 10it was just X. No need for a zero

Also, they did not recognize the polarity of magnetism or the need to identify neutrality with a "zero" placeholder.

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Zero wasn't invented yet. It was invented in the Middle East



Another answer: There was no need for a zero in their system. We have 9 numbers plus the zero symbol. We add a zero on to the end of a number to convert it to tens and two zeros to convert it to hundreds and so on. The Romans simply had different symbols for tens and hundreds. For example we would write 1, 10, 20, 40, 50, 100 and 200 but the same numbers as Roman numerals would be I, X, XX, XL, L, C and CC, done quite simply with no need for a zero. In the middle ages monks, who still used Roman numerals and wrote in Latin, began to used the symbol N to represent zero (from the Latin Nullae meaning nothing).

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