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Roman numerals are a system of numerical notations used by the Romans.
It is based on letters which are assigned values as numerals.
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Roman numerals cannot be negative or zero. Multiple symbols may be combined to produce numbers.
Lowercase letters are used to represent large numbers.
This is not standard practice.
Often a bar is placed above a Roman digit to indicate that is 1000 times larger than normal.
Standard Number |
Roman Number |
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1 |
I |
5 |
V |
10 |
X |
50 |
L |
100 |
C |
500 |
D |
1000 |
M |
5000 |
v |
10000 |
x |
50000 |
l |
100000 |
c |
500000 |
d |
1000000 |
m |
Roman numerals are commonly used today in clock faces, pages preceding the main body of a book,
music analysis, and successive political leaders or children having identical names.
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