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This template converts Arabic numerals (that is, 1, 2, 3, etc.) into Roman numerals (I, II, III etc.). It currently works for any whole number between 1 and 4999999. It currently works for any whole number between 1 and 4999999.
In tarot, Roman numerals (with zero) are often used to denote the cards of the Major Arcana. In Ireland, Roman numerals were used until the late 1980s to indicate the month on postage Franking. In documents, Roman numerals are sometimes still used to indicate the month to avoid confusion over day/month/year or month/day/year formats.
For example, {{Roman|2006}} returns MMVI. Warofdreams talk 22:51, 28 May 2006 (UTC) []. With the addition of numbers over 5000 with the macron (here done with tpl:Overline), the current version keeps the macron characters separate from the non-macron characters, and thus uses MMMM rather than M V for 4000.
A binary clock might use LEDs to express binary values. In this clock, each column of LEDs shows a binary-coded decimal numeral of the traditional sexagesimal time.. The common names are derived somewhat arbitrarily from a mix of Latin and Greek, in some cases including roots from both languages within a single name. [27]
The reception of Arabic numerals in the West was gradual and lukewarm, as other numeral systems circulated in addition to the older Roman numbers. As a discipline, the first to adopt Arabic numerals as part of their own writings were astronomers and astrologists, evidenced from manuscripts surviving from mid-12th-century Bavaria.
A non-zero numeral with more than one digit position will mean a different number in a different number base, but in general, the digits will mean the same. [14] For example, the base-8 numeral 23 8 contains two digits, "2" and "3", and with a base number (subscripted) "8".
Roman numeral analysis of the standard twelve-bar blues In music theory, fake books and lead sheets aimed towards jazz and popular music , many tunes and songs are written in a key, and as such for all chords, a letter name and symbols are given for all triads (e.g., C, G 7 , Dm, etc.).
In Roman numerals, for example, X means ten and L means fifty, so LXXX means eighty (50 + 10 + 10 + 10). Although signs may be written in a conventional order the value of each sign does not depend on its place in the sequence, and changing the order does not affect the total value of the sequence in an additive system.