Ancient Roman Finger Counting

The Ancient Romans didn't count on their fingers like modern Europeans or Americans. Instead, the dactylonomy of the Romans counted was most unusual, and I bet you'll find challenging if not IMPOSSIBLE to master! In this video, my fiancée @irenelapreziosa and I do our best to learn how to count from 1-99 on ONE HAND in the Ancient Roman fashion. Since Irene is a modern Roman, will she have an advantage in this game? Then we try to count from 100-9999 on the other hand! It's a crazy system. Try your best to learn with us, and write in the comments with how you did. Many thanks to my sponsor the Ancient Language Institute. To learn Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, or Old English with some of the best instructors and pedagogy out there, sign up for online lessons at . ⬅️ 🦂 Support my work on Patreon: 📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks: 🤠 Take my course LATIN UNCOVERED on StoryLearning, including my original Latin adventure novella “Vir Petasātus“ 🦂 Sign up for my Latin Pronunciation & Conversation series on Patreon: 🏺 Lucian Pronunciation of Ancient Greek: 📄 Ancient Greek Pronunciation Guide: ▶️ Ancient Greek Pronunciation playlist: 🦂 Sign up for my Latin Pronunciation & Conversation series on Patreon: 📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks: ☕️ Support my work with PayPal: And if you like, do consider joining this channel: 🏛 Latin by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: 🏺Ancient Greek by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: 🏛 Ancient Greek in Action · Free Greek Lessons: 👨‍🏫 My Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata playlist · Free Latin Lessons: 🦂 ScorpioMartianus (my channel for content in Latin, Ancient Greek, & Ancient Egyptian) 🎙 Hundreds of hours of Latin & Greek audio: 🌍 polýMATHY website: 🌅 polýMATHY on Instagram: 🦁 Legio XIII Latin Language Podcast: 👕 Merch: 🦂 🦅 📖 My book Ranieri Reverse Recall on Amazon: Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart Some sources consulted: Luca Pacioli's Summa de Arithmetica (1494): #/media/File: History of Information article on Ancient Roman finger counting: Symphosius Riddle 96: Juvenal Saturae 10: @1#9 Public forum conversation on Ancient Roman finger counting: A blog post on Ancient Roman finger counting: Tookmund article on Ancient Roman finger counting: 0:00 Intro 0:42 1-9 4:00 Ancient Riddle 4:50 10-90 8:13 Ancient Language Institute 9:36 Following the written descriptions 10:00 Capt. Kirk levels of frustration 14:38 100-9000 15:42 Learn Italian with @irenelapreziosa 15:59 Our attempt at being serious 20:00 Juvenal Saturae 10 20:34 Putting it all together! 23:42 Conclusion 24:07 Outtakes Watch Irene teach me how to make the Italian hand gestures on her channel here: 🇮🇹 Leave her a nice comment that I sent you! #ancientrome #fingercounting #mathematics