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> > Of course, how were numbers done in ancient Greek.  It was written in
> > boustrophedon:  the lines alternated left-to-right and right-to-left.
>
> Some rather old writings were written boustrophedon, but I wouldn't
> present it as the norm.

Order of the line wouldn't have mattered.  They didn't use positional
notation.  Instead (I'm using roman leters here for convenience) they
use letters for numbers thusly:

     a=1      j=10     s=100
     b=2      k=20     t
     c=3      l=30     u
     d=4      m=40     v
     e=5      n=50     w
     f=6      o=60     x
     g=7      p=70     y
     h=8      q=80     z
     i=9      r=90     %=900

What they did for bigger numbers I don't know.

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