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...with these new technological solutions come also new technological problems. We are all familiar with the threat of the YM problem last year, when the abaci that recorded the Year CMXCVIIIJ were to roll over and show the year...well, something other than the Year M. [The lack of a zero can cause problems sometimes.] Luckily, few people were using the abacus, since it had only been introduced to Europe a few decades earlier by Gerbert of Aurillac, now Pope Sylvester II. [This is part of how you got to be Pope in those days. Want to make friends...
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