Roman Numerals

The Romans used a different system of numbers to the one we use today; instead of the digits 0 to 9 they used symbols to represent different values:		Can you convert Roman to Modern numbers?
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Roman Numerals
I	=	1
V	=	5
X	=	10
L	=	50
C	=	100
D	=	500
M	=	1000

The symbols are normally arranged in descending order and the values are simply added together.

Where a symbol of lesser value comes before a symbol of greater value then the lesser value is subtracted.

For example IV acutually means 5 - 1 = 4 and CMII means 1000 - 100 + 1 + 1 = 902

Only C, X and I can be subtracted and only one smaller symbol can be used.

The symbol used for subtraction must not be less than a tenth of the value of the number it precedes.

So something like IIX or LM is NOT allowed. (IIX uses two smaller numbers (II) before the larger one (X) and L(50) is less than one tenth the size of M(1000))

This means that:

There are rules about what symbols go where when using Roman Numerals

Try this Quiz to see if you work out the numbers