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Guess the Roman Numerals
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RE: Guess the Roman Numerals
November 27, 2017 at 10:51 am
(November 27, 2017 at 10:22 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Lovely.  A game where no one could possibly get any of the answers wrong, except deliberately.

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(November 27, 2017 at 8:57 am)Brian37 Wrote: Will you stop being a killjoy.

There has to be 'joy' in the first place in order for me to kill it.

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November 27, 2017 at 12:35 pm
Stupid?  Not at all. I think it's the most entertaining thread you've come up with since you treated us all to your 'Facts of Life' fetish.

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November 27, 2017 at 12:37 pm
ADD 2,821 PLUS 1,478 give me the answer in Roman Numerals.
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November 27, 2017 at 12:40 pm
MMMMCCXCIX.  Anything else?

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RE: Guess the Roman Numerals
November 27, 2017 at 12:44 pm
(November 27, 2017 at 12:40 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: MMMMCCXCIX.  Anything else?

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November 27, 2017 at 12:48 pm
The LAST thing I want you to do is to stop posting.  Smile

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November 27, 2017 at 12:53 pm
yeah....
Anything above MMMDCCCLXXXVIII just becomes awkward...

I wonder if MMMIM is a legal sequence... The alternative sucks... MMMCMXCIX
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RE: Guess the Roman Numerals
November 27, 2017 at 12:58 pm
(November 27, 2017 at 12:53 pm)pocaracas Wrote: yeah....
Anything above MMMDCCCLXXXVIII just becomes awkward...

I wonder if MMMIM is a legal sequence... The alternative sucks... MMMCMXCIX

Actually, the system has a shorthand notation for larger numbers - you put a line over the top of V (for example) and it would be read as '5000' (I just can't suss out how to make an overscore on this keyboard).  Thus, the answer to 37's addition problem could be written IVCCXCIX, with the superscript over the IV, turning '4' into '4000'.

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November 27, 2017 at 1:00 pm
for me it's   MMMMCCXCIC
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November 27, 2017 at 1:19 pm
(November 27, 2017 at 12:58 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(November 27, 2017 at 12:53 pm)pocaracas Wrote: yeah....
Anything above MMMDCCCLXXXVIII just becomes awkward...

I wonder if MMMIM is a legal sequence... The alternative sucks... MMMCMXCIX

Actually, the system has a shorthand notation for larger numbers - you put a line over the top of V (for example) and it would be read as '5000' (I just can't suss out how to make an overscore on this keyboard).  Thus, the answer to 37's addition problem could be written IVCCXCIX, with the superscript over the IV, turning '4' into '4000'.

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I had never heard of that overscore thing for large numbers...
It will still cap out of usefulness at M̅M̅M̅, I guess...
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