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Guess the Roman Numerals
#11
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(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.

Boru

(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.

Boru

You think this thread is stupid? Ok so what?
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#12
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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.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#13
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ADD 2,821 PLUS 1,478 give me the answer in Roman Numerals.
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#14
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MMMMCCXCIX.  Anything else?

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#15
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(November 27, 2017 at 12:40 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: MMMMCCXCIX.  Anything else?

Boru

If you don't like the thread why the hell are you wasting your time in it? If you think I am going to stop posting in it because one person doesn't like it, forget it.
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#16
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The LAST thing I want you to do is to stop posting.  Smile

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#17
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yeah....
Anything above MMMDCCCLXXXVIII just becomes awkward...

I wonder if MMMIM is a legal sequence... The alternative sucks... MMMCMXCIX
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#18
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(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'.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#19
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for me it's   MMMMCCXCIC
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#20
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(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'.

Boru

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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