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translation of roman numerals please???
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Heidi | Report | 21 Jul 2005 23:07 |
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hi any ideas....i didnt do fluent roman at school....xx what is XV111.....is it 18? or 8 ...or neither lol |
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Victor | Report | 21 Jul 2005 23:09 |
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Hiedi You were right the first time 18 X=10 V=5 I=1 Cheers Victor |
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Heidi | Report | 21 Jul 2005 23:15 |
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thank you ever so muchly xx |
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David | Report | 21 Jul 2005 23:19 |
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If you google 'Roman Numeral Converter' You will get several converters where you type in a number and they will convert it. David |
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Heidi | Report | 21 Jul 2005 23:25 |
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thnks again xx |
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Merry | Report | 21 Jul 2005 23:27 |
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Not doubting my PM are you Heidi??? Only joking! Sarah - nite nite! |
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Heidi | Report | 21 Jul 2005 23:35 |
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i havnt recieved ur PM sarah....that is why i posted a thread as thought you had gone to bed xx |
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David | Report | 21 Jul 2005 23:42 |
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Caesar has proclaimed Compvter Romanvs to be the official calcvlator of the Roman Empire. Yov now have at yovr disposal the latest in high technology to assist in all manner of nvmerical problems. Yes, whether yov're bvilding a road, designing an aqvadvct, or covnting yovr gladiators, Compvter Romanvs will make the job easier. Yov can even vse it to convert barbaric nvmbers into proper Roman nvmerals. Yov can also learn abovt transforming dates into Roman covnting. Find it at http://www*naturalmath*com/tool2.html Replace * with . |
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Merry | Report | 22 Jul 2005 07:05 |
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Heidi - Good Old GR! Sarah |
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Christine in Herts | Report | 22 Jul 2005 07:59 |
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Anyone who does cryptic crosswords would find the Roman numerals useful. After I, V and X (as above) there are: L = 50 C = 100 (think of Cents in a Euro/Dollar - a 100 of them) D = 500 M = 1,000 (think of MB in computer-speak!) (Incidentally, I gather that V and L were intended to represent half the letter above: a V is the top half of an X chopped horizontally, and an L is the bottom half of a C - if it's written in a very square sort of way). If you get a smaller value letter immediately before a larger one then you deduct the small one from the larger one: e.g. 9 = VIIII = IX The biggest problem for Roman numerical work was the lack of a zero. That was invented by the Arabs and was a serious trade-secret for years! Christine |
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Geoff | Report | 22 Jul 2005 08:28 |
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Sadly, Mb in computer speak is MEGAbytes (= 1,000,000 or strictly 1,048,576). |
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Christine in Herts | Report | 22 Jul 2005 09:56 |
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Geoff Yes - I'd forgotten that. It's not my area of expertise - I should have checked first! K - Kilo - somehow got into the 1,000 slot, didn't it, like Kilometres. So it's more useful to think of Millimetres / Millilitres and such - which are fractions - a thousandth (in the same way that Cents are hundredths) . Christine |
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