What are roman numerals?

Question

How were they created? What's their history?

Answer 1

Roman Numerals are what the Romans used as there numbers
We use the ARABIC Numerals


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Answer 2

The Romans were active in trade and commerce, and from the time of learning to write they needed a way to indicate numbers. The system they developed lasted many centuries, and still sees some specialized use today.

Roman numerals traditionally indicate the order of rulers or ships who share the same name (i.e. Queen Elizabeth II). They are also sometimes still used in the publishing industry for copyright dates, and on cornerstones and gravestones when the owner of a building or the family of the deceased wishes to create an impression of classical dignity. The Roman numbering system also lives on in our languages, which still use Latin word roots to express numerical ideas. A few examples: unilateral, duo, quadricep, septuagenarian, decade, milliliter.

The big differences between Roman and Arabic numerals (the ones we use today) are that Romans didn't have a symbol for zero, and that numeral placement within a number can sometimes indicate subtraction rather than addition.

Answer 3

What are Roman Numerals?

I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X

L=50, M=1,000, D=500

Prior to the invention by the Arabs and acceptance of Arabic Numerals (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ..........etc.) various ancient civilizations were stymied by an efficient numeric representational system. The Egyptians, the Summerians, the Assyrians, the Chinese, and a whole lot of others had a primitive and stunted way of doing math, and this included the mighty Roman Empire.

Answer 4

roman numerals are objects that the romans use to count with. How they were created? There history? I have no idea. i learned about them in math and that is all that i know about them. Look roman numerals up on wikipedia.com though and it will tell you

Answer 5

Your question answers itself. They were created as numbers. Their history is Roman. I is one. V is 5. X is 10. L is 50. C is 100, and M is 1000. What does this mean: MCMLII. My birth year.

Answer 6

Roman numerals were based on certain letters of the alphabet.

I=1
V=5
X=10
L=50
C=100
D=500
M=1000
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V=5000 X=10000 L = 50000 C-100000 D 500000
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M 1,000,000

Answer 7

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