Roman numerals are, by modern standards, a bit unusual. By virtue of using designations for both 5 and 10, and not scaling well to higher numbers, they’ve fallen out of favor outside of some specific ...

Around the thirteenth century CE, European society was in the midst between transitioning from Roman numerals to the Arabic numerals that we use today. Less remembered are the Cistercian numerals, ...

In a sunlit room in Anchorage on a recent afternoon, high school students from all over the state were painting, gluing and covering wood with resin. Round handmade clocks dotted the table, each ...