roman numeral
Roman Numerals are symbols ancient Romans used to represent numerical values. Similar to how "1" represents the concept of the one/the first number/singularity the symbol "I" represents the same. Roman numerals tend to follow a system where any given symbol can only be used up to a maximum 4 times when representing a specific number and each symbol represents a numerical unit. Depicting that unit multiple times represents higher values.
Thousands | Hundreds | Tens | Unit | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | M | C | X | I |
2 | MM | CC | XX | II |
3 | MMM | CCC | XXX | III |
4 | CD | XL | IV | |
5 | D | L | V | |
6 | DC | LX | VI | |
7 | DCC | LXX | VII | |
8 | DCCC | LXXX | VIII | |
9 | CM | XC | IX |
The largest number that can be represented in this manner is 3,999 which would be represented as MMMCMXCIX.
The following tags are aliased to this tag: roman_numerals (learn more).