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This year's Super Bowl Roman Numeral notation: "XL" or "XXXX"?

Discussion in 'Archive: Your Jedi Council Community' started by Jedi_Master_Eric, Jan 14, 2006.

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  1. Suzuki_Akira

    Suzuki_Akira Jedi Master star 7

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    Any Latin student will tell you that you only typically have three numerals of the same type added onto another before you subtract from the fifth to get you fourth.

    XL is forty

    XC is ninety

    CD is four hundred

    CM is ninehundred

    etc.
     
    Suzuki_Akira, Jan 14, 2006
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  2. GrandAdmiralJello

    GrandAdmiralJello Comms Admin ❉ Moderator Communitatis Litterarumque star 10 Staff Member Administrator

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    It's what the hell do--subject verb agreement, mister.

    Obviously, the elementary school point is appropriate.

    Speaking of Roman Numerals, doing math with 'subtractive notation' is very fun--especially when we start doing calculus, just because the number system is funny. It's much easier to use a base number system: then you get neat things like two's complement.
     
    GrandAdmiralJello , Jan 15, 2006
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  3. Hama

    Hama Retired GSA, Retired RSA star 6 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Technically, he never said when in the future. It could be Super Bowl XC for all we know.
     
    Hama, Jan 15, 2006
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