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Victorius of Aquitaine


V Century
Gallic scientist interested in numerical computing. He compiled a multiplication table in Roman numerals and made other advances, but is best remembered for having proposed a chronology of world history and a (related) method for calculating the date of Pascha very popular in the West during the VI, VII, and VIII Centuries.


2012 November 7

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