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  2. Roman numerals - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Roman numeral analysis - Wikipedia

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    Roman numerals are sometimes complemented by Arabic numerals to denote inversion of the chords. The system is similar to that of Figured bass, the Arabic numerals describing the characteristic interval(s) above the bass note of the chord, the figures 3 and 5 usually being omitted. The first inversion is denoted by the numeral 6 (e.g.

  4. Latin numerals - Wikipedia

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    The Latin numerals are the words used to denote numbers within the Latin language. They are essentially based on their Proto-Indo-European ancestors, and the Latin cardinal numbers are largely sustained in the Romance languages. In Antiquity and during the Middle Ages they were usually represented by Roman numerals in writing.

  5. History of ancient numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    The Roman numerals developed from Etruscan symbols around the middle of the 1st millennium BCE. [34] In the Etruscan system, the symbol 1 was a single vertical mark ...

  6. Abbrev. [1]Meaning [1] Latin (or Neo-Latin) origin [1]; a.c. before meals: ante cibum a.d., ad, AD right ear auris dextra a.m., am, AM morning: ante meridiem: nocte ...

  7. Number Forms - Wikipedia

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    Number Forms is a Unicode block containing Unicode compatibility characters that have specific meaning as numbers, but are constructed from other characters.They consist primarily of vulgar fractions and Roman numerals.

  8. Positional notation - Wikipedia

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    Hellenistic and Roman astronomers used a base-60 system based on the Babylonian model (see Greek numerals § Zero). Before positional notation became standard, simple additive systems (sign-value notation) such as Roman numerals were used, and accountants in ancient Rome and during the Middle Ages used the abacus or stone counters to do ...

  9. Vinculum (symbol) - Wikipedia

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    It was also used to mark Roman numerals whose values are multiplied by 1,000. [2] Today, however, the common usage of a vinculum to indicate the repetend of a repeating decimal [ 3 ] [ 4 ] is a significant exception and reflects the original usage.