Via Nomentana Via Nomentana Via Nomentana is an ancient road of Italy, leading North-East from Rome to Nomentum (modern Mentana), a distance of . It originally bore the name "Via Ficulensis", from the old Latin village of Ficulea, about from Rome. It was subsequently extended to Nomentum, but never became an important high road, and merged in the Via Salaria a few kilometers beyond Nomentum. It is followed as far as Nomentum by the modern state road, but some traces of its pavement still exist. Originally starting from now-destroyed Porta Collina in the Servian Walls, in the third century emperor Aurelian build
Calculation also involve algorithmic calculations, but produces ranges of possibilities rather than exact answers. To "calculate" means to determine mathematically in the case of a number or amount, or in the case of an abstract problem to deduce the answer using logic, reason or common sense. The English word derives from the Latin "calculus", which originally meant a small stone in the gall-bladder (from Latin "calx"). It also meant a pebble used for calculating, or a small stone used as a counter in an abacus (Latin "abacus", Greek "abax"). The abacus was an instrument used by Greeks and Romans for arithmetic