Officially MCMICIX. But in actual Roman times, you’d see IMM or MIM, albeit unofficially after numbers were standardized. Well, you would if they needed that number.
Of course, earlier versions had no subtraction at all, so you’d get MDCCCCLXXXXVIIII. Or you would if they used M–I don’t think it existed yet.
It still comes up as a category on Jeopardy, so there’s that as a reason for learning!
If this is a humor class, you get a passing grade. If it’s math, you fail!
answer should be 1855
Bart Simpson learned them in school:
“Rocky V plus Rocky II equals Rocky VII! Adrian’s Revenge!”
I assumed the poster was trained with New Math
The base used remains a mystery to this day. ;)I, for one, have grown to like Roman Numerals.
Also used a lot in crossword puzzles, presumably when they need they need a filler to make the other words fit. Like “Ulee” or “Ione”.
As to the OP, I learned it in elementary school but it was in one of those “advanced” classes where we also learned color names like “puce” and “vermillion” and had to make construction paper models of dodecahedrons (sp.).In other words, I don’t think it was widely taught; just to us kids that got to learn the weird and useless stuff (not that I’m complaining).
Often the clue will be something like “Year in the reign of Claudius” but sometimes a lazy editor will do no more than provide “4th century date”.
Last year’s Superbowl was called Superbowl 50 by the NFL, they claim for aesthetic reasons, but this year they will once again do as the Romans do and the big game will be Superbowl LI. Of course that is sooooo much more pleasing to the eye than Superbowl L.
Some of you other ancients may remember Jack Webb’s Mark VII production company known for imprinting the VII in stone with a big iron stamp hit by a hammer held by Webb’s own hand(that’s just the facts ma’am). Something about the use of Roman numerals provides an air of power and authority, a sense of meaning beyond the simple numbers they represent.
The Superbowl thing doesn’t really do much for the *stereotype *that football fans are a bunch of beer guzzling dumb asses(please note, I said stereotype). As if the NFL are overly concerned about aesthetics?:dubious:
Very nice.
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