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"Hello, I'm Fibonacci. I'd like to teach you a very old method, over 2000 years old, of multiplication.

I travelled
around the world and I studied all different kinds of math. I learned about the numbers 0-9 and place value. In
Europe we were using Roman Numerals I, IV, X, etc. and they were very hard to work with, so I wrote a book
trying to get everyone to change to the Hindu-Arabic 0-9 numbers. People thought it was a good idea, but they
didn't really start using them until 300 years later!"

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