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The Carolingian 'Multiplication Table' You've Never Heard Of

Everyone's talking about schools and modern education. How about this - Charlemagne’s court devised a poetic codex, *'Carmen de Algorismo'*, which detailed the art of computing with Arabic numerals. 9th-century business men actually used this for financial transactions. Sort of an earliest 'Excel for Dummies.'
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