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Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby Mazuku » Sun Jan 23, 2011 5:53 am UTC

It's like the other counting threads except its counting up in Roman numerals.

Roman Numeral Chart
(for those people who don't know)
I = 1
V = 5
X = 10
L = 50
C = 100
D = 500
M = 1000


I will start at one as the Romans haven't got a zero IIRC:

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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby BurningLed » Mon Jan 24, 2011 12:47 am UTC

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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby cjdrum » Mon Jan 24, 2011 12:48 am UTC

Cool idea!

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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby Thesh » Mon Jan 24, 2011 12:50 am UTC

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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby Djur » Mon Jan 24, 2011 1:12 am UTC

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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby John Citizen » Mon Jan 24, 2011 1:40 am UTC

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How will this work for numbers over 3999?
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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby Mazuku » Mon Jan 24, 2011 2:19 am UTC

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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby MuschMusch » Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:12 am UTC

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Right? (IX ist the first X, nor?)
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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby Mazuku » Mon Jan 24, 2011 1:10 pm UTC

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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby MuschMusch » Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:00 am UTC

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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby Lazar » Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:00 am UTC

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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby Mazuku » Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:06 am UTC

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Postby ostrichguy » Tue Jan 25, 2011 12:50 pm UTC

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Postby MuschMusch » Tue Jan 25, 2011 4:40 pm UTC

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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby Lazar » Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:08 pm UTC

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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby genghis007 » Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:13 pm UTC

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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby cjdrum » Wed Jan 26, 2011 12:54 am UTC

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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby Mazuku » Wed Jan 26, 2011 4:54 am UTC

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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby cjdrum » Wed Jan 26, 2011 5:38 am UTC

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Not six.
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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby Mazuku » Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:08 am UTC

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Postby MuschMusch » Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:24 am UTC

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Postby cjdrum » Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:25 am UTC

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Postby MuschMusch » Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:27 am UTC

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Postby cjdrum » Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:30 am UTC

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Postby Mazuku » Wed Jan 26, 2011 9:57 am UTC

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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby BurningLed » Wed Jan 26, 2011 12:36 pm UTC

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Postby MuschMusch » Wed Jan 26, 2011 1:39 pm UTC

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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby SlyReaper » Wed Jan 26, 2011 1:47 pm UTC

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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby Krawl » Wed Jan 26, 2011 3:19 pm UTC

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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby BurningLed » Wed Jan 26, 2011 8:31 pm UTC

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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby Mazuku » Wed Jan 26, 2011 9:34 pm UTC

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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby SlyReaper » Wed Jan 26, 2011 9:59 pm UTC

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Is there a special character for 1 million, or is the final post going to have to contain exactly 1000 M's?
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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby Lazar » Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:01 pm UTC

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I believe that would be an M with a line over it.
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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby Mazuku » Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:08 pm UTC

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Lazar wrote:XXXIII
I believe that would be an M with a line over it.

You mean M = 1,000 & M with a line over it - 1,000,000 by any chance? Unless you know to add the line above the letter, we might have to stop at 4,000.
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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby SlyReaper » Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:12 pm UTC

Reading that wiki page, it seems like an overline multiplies that roman digit by 1000. So V with an overline would be 5000.

So how do we put overlines on text in this forum?

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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby cjdrum » Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:13 pm UTC

I've heard that a line underneath supposedly works just as well as above.
Basically, if anyone's not understanding, the line multiplies the thing under/above it by 1000.


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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby John Citizen » Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:14 pm UTC

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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby SlyReaper » Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:15 pm UTC

You two have miscounted.

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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby BurningLed » Thu Jan 27, 2011 3:01 am UTC

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Re: Count to a Million in Roman Numerals

Postby John Citizen » Thu Jan 27, 2011 3:25 am UTC

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