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You don't.
The Greeks and Romans had no concept of 0 as a number, which is interesting since it appears the Babylonians did.
It's really in the Hindu-Arabic system with place value that 0 becomes a number.
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Question: If you can't have more than 3 of the same roman numeral in a row, how do you express 4,000 then?
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Quote:Question: If you can't have more than 3 of the same roman numeral in a row, how do you express 4,000 then?
Answer: You CAN have 4. You just can't have 5. Also, only one of V, L and D.
And any number greater than MMMMDCCCCLXXXXVIIII isn't really expressible (although there have been some conventions made. M is supposed to denote a million, for example.)
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MMCMXCIX
(I almost wrote MMCMXCLXXXIV, but that's not a valid roman numeral.)
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When I was young I thought they were "Roman Numberals" which was just a fancy way of saying "Roman Numbers."
