Roman numerals
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Could someone with some knowledge of Roman numerals please help me figure out how to say 260972?
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Not an easy task considering the Romans didn't feel they needed a word for anything higher than 1000. ALso using the Basic Roman Numeral system the highest Number possible was 4,999. Romans did use many ways to represent numbers higher, but were all very confusing to use and really didn't have common mainstream ways of using them.
Using the below table:
M=1000 | D=500 | C=100 | L=50 | X=10 | V=5 | I=1
You can however put a line above the number multiplying it by 1000 however I have no idea how you would pronounce those.
So you could use 2 C's with Lines over them for 100000
Leaving you with 60972, so 1 L with a line over it would be 50000 leaving you with 10972. 1 X with a line is 10000, 1 D leaves you with 472. So in the end you'd have:
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CCLXDCCCCLXXII
I'm not even going to attempt to figure out how to say that.
Using the below table:
M=1000 | D=500 | C=100 | L=50 | X=10 | V=5 | I=1
You can however put a line above the number multiplying it by 1000 however I have no idea how you would pronounce those.
So you could use 2 C's with Lines over them for 100000
Leaving you with 60972, so 1 L with a line over it would be 50000 leaving you with 10972. 1 X with a line is 10000, 1 D leaves you with 472. So in the end you'd have:
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CCLXDCCCCLXXII
I'm not even going to attempt to figure out how to say that.
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Re: Roman numerals
Here are two online Roman Mumeral translators:benissimus wrote:Could someone with some knowledge of Roman numerals please help me figure out how to say 260972?
1-3899:
http://www.24hourtranslations.co.uk/rnumerals.htm
1 - 4999:
http://www.guernsey.net/~sgibbs/roman.html
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Is this acceptable:
ducenti sexaginta milia nongenti septuaginta duo ?
Or is this a naïve and failed attempt at converting French to something resembling terrible Latin ?
ducenti sexaginta milia nongenti septuaginta duo ?
Or is this a naïve and failed attempt at converting French to something resembling terrible Latin ?
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Thanks for the help, I found this site if you are interested:
http://www2.inetdirect.net/~charta/Roman_numerals.html
Now that I am thoroughly educated about Roman numerals, I must figure out how to use my immense knowledge...
http://www2.inetdirect.net/~charta/Roman_numerals.html
Now that I am thoroughly educated about Roman numerals, I must figure out how to use my immense knowledge...
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Re: Roman numerals
bis centena milia sexagena milia nongenti septuaginta duo.benissimus wrote:Could someone with some knowledge of Roman numerals please help me figure out how to say 260972?
2 * 100000 + 60 * 1000 + 900 + 70 + 2
if I read my grammar right, that is. I've only just noted that I've got a grammar that does numerals up to 1.000.000.
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