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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 1377068, member: 13650&quot;]Here&#039;s a few basic rules to help you read them in the future.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Once you know what the symbols stand for, it&#039;s pretty basic.&nbsp; You can&#039;t have more than three of the same symbol in a row to form a number.&nbsp; &nbsp; So you can&#039;t do, &quot;IIIII&quot; to make 5.&nbsp; It has to be a &quot;V&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Next rule, when a lower value symbol comes before a higher value symbol, it is subtracted from the higher to give you your number.&nbsp;&nbsp; i.e... IV is a 4.&nbsp; &nbsp; IX is a 9.&nbsp; All values follow this rule.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;So: mdccclxxvi&nbsp; &nbsp; All declining values in a row so these just need to be added together to give you the date.&nbsp;&nbsp; M= 1k.&nbsp; D=500.&nbsp;&nbsp; C=100&nbsp; L=50 and so on.&nbsp; &nbsp; These symbols translate to:</p><p><br /></p><p>1000+500+100+100+100+50+10+10+5+1= 1876.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;2012 would simply be MMXII.&nbsp; 1k+1k+10+1+1.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 2009 would be MMIX.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 1989 would be&nbsp; MCMLXXXIX&nbsp;&nbsp; First M is your 1k.&nbsp; The C has to be subtracted from the bigger M in front of it for your 9.&nbsp;&nbsp; LXXX gets added together for your 80.&nbsp; IX gives you the 9.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Wife had to learn them for college and I ended up learning them too.&nbsp;&nbsp; I like it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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