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The Romans had a separate system for fractions based on 12 (like a clock). The fractions were made up from dots and the letter S. S =1/2 and each dot was 1/12. Dots alone represented 1/12 (.) to 5/12 (::.) , S was 6/12, S and dots represented 7/12 (S.) to 11/12 (S::.) and I was one.

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