Roman Numerals, what does this add up 2?

Question

MCMLXXIX

write it out please.

Answer 1

M = 1000
CM = 1000 - 100 = 900
L = 50
XX = 20
IX = 10 - 1 = 9

Adds up to 1979.

Answer 2

I The easiest way to note down a number is to make that many marks - little I's. Thus I means 1, II means 2, III means 3. However, four strokes seemed like too many....
V So the Romans moved on to the symbol for 5 - V. Placing I in front of the V — or placing any smaller number in front of any larger number — indicates subtraction. So IV means 4. After V comes a series of additions - VI means 6, VII means 7, VIII means 8.
X X means 10. But wait — what about 9? Same deal. IX means to subtract I from X, leaving 9. Numbers in the teens, twenties and thirties follow the same form as the first set, only with X's indicating the number of tens. So XXXI is 31, and XXIV is 24.
L L means 50. Based on what you've learned, I bet you can figure out what 40 is. If you guessed XL, you're right = 10 subtracted from 50. And thus 60, 70, and 80 are LX, LXX and LXXX.
C C stands for centum, the Latin word for 100. A centurion led 100 men. We still use this in words like "century" and "cent." The subtraction rule means 90 is written as XC. Like the X's and L's, the C's are tacked on to the beginning of numbers to indicate how many hundreds there are: CCCLXIX is 369.
D D stands for 500. As you can probably guess by this time, CD means 400. So CDXLVIII is 448. (See why we switched systems?)
M M is 1,000. You see a lot of Ms because Roman numerals are used a lot to indicate dates. For instance, this page was written in the year of Nova Roma's founding, 1998 CE (Common Era; Christians use AD for Anno Domini, "year of our Lord"). That year is written as MCMXCVIII. But wait! Nova Roma counts years from the founding of Rome, ab urbe condita. By that reckoning Nova Roma was founded in 2751 a.u.c. or MMDCCLI.


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V

Larger numbers were indicated by putting a horizontal line over them, which meant to multiply the number by 1,000. Hence the V at left has a line over the top, which means 5,000. This usage is no longer current, because the largest numbers usually expressed in the Roman system are dates, as discussed above.

So
M = 1,000
D = 500
C = 100
L = 50
X = 10
V = 5
I = 1

Therefore MCMLXXIX =
M = 1,000
CM = 1,000 - 100 = 900
L = 50
XX = 20
IX = 10 - 1 = 9

Together they are 1979 which just happens to be the year I married.

Answer 3

Any roman numeral that starts with MCM is from the 1900's. The L is 50, X is 10 and in this case XI is 9. So your number equals= 1979. Hope this knowlege helps.

Answer 4

http://www.novaroma.org/via_romana/numbers.html
is the address for a site that explains the method and symbols for Roman Numerals.

This page also has a handy space where you can type in either the roman numeral or our typical numbers and it will quickly convert for you.

Answer 5

I suggest you learn the basic rules of roman numerals so you can figure these out in the future.

Such as what the letter stands for and what the order means.

Answer 6

1979

Answer 7

MCMLXXIX
=1979

Answer 8

l979.
One thousand
one thousand minus one hundred = nine hundred.
Fifty plus ten, plus ten, plus ten minus one = 79

Answer 9

1979


really, you should be learning this and not begging for help on the easy stuff.

Answer 10

concur