...but you said earlier that you can't do that...
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IIII is perfectly legal for 4.
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You got mine wrong
The last two are VI, not IV.
The number was 1666. Coincidentally, that was the year the great fire of London occurred :/
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Quote:With so many replies at once I must've read yours wrong. Sorry
For tallies, yes. For Roman numerals, there is a rule that no more than three of the same numeral can be in a row.
So that's why 4 is VI, and 5 is V, and so on.
As mentioned before, it's not a "rule". It's a convenience of modern usage. Find a clock with roman numerals on the face and it will probably have IIII on the front.
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25-Apr-2012, 12:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 25-Apr-2012, 12:27 PM by KeyboardWielder.)
How do you write 0 in Roman?