What we use roiman numerals for?

Answer 1

We use them on outlines... and when we don't feel like writing the real number out for some reason. Notice that sometimes, movies do that for their year of publication, ex. instead of 2005, they would put MMV.

Answer 2

Roman numerals were used on corner stones of buildings, but have since been replaced by Arabic numerals. Roman numerals are used as the numbers on clocks.

Answer 3

Roman numerals are commonly used today in numbered lists (in outline format), clock faces, pages preceding the main body of a book, chord triads in music analysis, the numbering of movie publication dates, successive political leaders or children with identical names, and the numbering of some sport events, such as the Olympic Games or the Super Bowl.(1)

Answer 4

The use of Roman numerals today is mostly restricted to ordinal numbers, such as volumes or chapters in a book or the numbers identifying monarchs or popes (eg. Elizabeth II, Benedict XVI, etc.).

Modern English usage also employs Roman numerals in many books (especially anthologies), movies (eg. Star Trek and Star Wars), sporting events (eg. the Olympic Games, the Super Bowl, and WWE's WrestleMania), and historic events (eg. World War I, World War II).

In astronomy, the natural satellites or "moons" of the planets are traditionally designated by capital Roman numerals, at first by order from the center of the planet, and later by order of discovery; e.g., Callisto was "Jupiter IV" or "J IV".

Science fiction, and not astronomy per se, has adopted the use for numbering the planets around a star; e.g., Planet Earth is called "Sol III".

In earthquake seismology, Roman numerals are used to designate degrees of the Mercalli intensity scale.

The French, the Portuguese, the Polish, and the Spanish use capital Roman numerals to denote centuries. For example, 'XVIII' refers to the eighteenth century, so as to avoid confusion between the '18th century' and the '1800s'.

In Poland, and Russia, and in Spanish and Portuguese, mixed Roman numerals are used to record dates (usually on tombstones).

In Romania and in central Amsterdam, Roman numerals are used for floor numbering.

The motion picture rating system in Hong Kong uses categories I, IIA, IIB, and III based on Roman numerals.

"Roman numerals : Other modern usage by English-speaking peoples, Modern non-English speaking usage" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals#Other_modern_usage_by_English-speaking_peoples

Answer 5

I'm not certain that you meant "what" and not "why."

The "why" of the matter is that we use Roman numerals because they "look" intellectual. Just a bit of snobbism.

But, I do like to use them!

Answer 6

Superbowls

Answer 7

When making an outline.

Answer 8

fancy clocks and outlines

Answer 9

WHAT??????? learn. to. spell.


dammit.