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Re:Why didn't the Romans contribute much to mathematics? by umanwizard on Saturday August 24, 2019 @09:20PM (#20790756)
This is typical of /r/AskHistorians , not Reddit as a whole.

They have an explicit policy of removing any amateurish or unsourced answers, in order to keep quality high.

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Re:Why didn't the Romans contribute much to mathematics? by msla on Saturday August 24, 2019 @10:17PM (#20790942)
And they still get things drastically wrong sometimes:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190825021639/https://old.reddi...

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Re:Why didn't the Romans contribute much to mathematics? by Judgmentality on Saturday August 24, 2019 @09:27PM (#20790780)
Doesn't that imply that the rest of reddit which is less heavily moderated has more low quality comments?
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Re:Why didn't the Romans contribute much to mathematics? by umanwizard on Saturday August 24, 2019 @09:28PM (#20790783)
Yes, and IMO it really does.
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Re:Why didn't the Romans contribute much to mathematics? by mdorazio on Saturday August 24, 2019 @09:31PM (#20790798)
Yes.
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