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| V IIIII was used rarely in the Middle Ages | I think the eastern Asians and Indians also had similar placeholder shapes, but the origin did come from a Persian mathematician name slips my mind if someone does google it and it says arab please do not mix arab and Persian |
CL CC CCC CD D DC DCLXVI Using every symbol except M in descending order gives the.
| D or D for five hundred thousand• Note the indicating its value | I II III IV IIII is still used on clock and faces |
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| 800 W More properly, the Greek , as W was a fairly new creation | DCC DCCC CM M MCDXLIV Smallest each symbol is used MDCLXVI Largest efficient pandigital number each symbol occurs exactly once MDCCCLXXXVIII Longest number when written excluding multiple M's MCMXC Shortcuts like XMM and MXM disagree with the rule stated MCMXCVII MCMXCIX Shortcuts like IMM and MIM disagree with the rule stated MM MMI 2,001 MMIX 2,009 MMD 2,500 MMM IV sometimes MMMM [ ] or M V V VMDCLXVI This number uses every symbol up to V once |