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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. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    This is the minimum number of characters needed to encode a 32 bit number into 5 printable characters in a process similar to MIME-64 encoding, since 85 5 is only slightly bigger than 2 32. Such method is 6.7% more efficient than MIME-64 which encodes a 24 bit number into 4 printable characters.

  4. 5000 (number) - Wikipedia

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    5303 – Sophie Germain prime, balanced prime [5] 5329 = 73 2, centered octagonal number [2] 5333 – Sophie Germain prime; 5335 – magic constant of n × n normal magic square and n-queens problem for n = 22. 5340 – octahedral number [12] 5350 - sum of the first 51 primes; 5356 – triangular number; 5365 – decagonal number [4] 5381 ...

  5. Alphabetic numeral system - Wikipedia

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    Roman numerals and Attic numerals, both of which were also alphabetic numeral systems, became more concise over time, but required their users to be familiar with many more signs. Acrophonic numerals do not belong to this group of systems because their letter-numerals do not follow the order of an alphabet.

  6. 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.

  7. History of ancient numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    In the Etruscan system, the symbol 1 was a single vertical mark, the symbol 10 was two perpendicularly crossed tally marks, and the symbol 100 was three crossed tally marks (similar in form to a modern asterisk *); while 5 (an inverted V shape) and 50 (an inverted V split by a single vertical mark) were perhaps derived from the lower halves of ...

  8. European numerals - Wikipedia

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    The term European numerals may refer to: The Sanskrit numeral system originated in India and is to this day used in Arabia and referred to as the Hindi numeral system in the Middle East, but called Arabic numerals in the Western world, arriving in Europe in the 11th century, it is the most commonly recognised numeral system in the world ...

  9. Tally marks - Wikipedia

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    Roman numerals, the Brahmi and Chinese numerals for one through three (一 二 三), and rod numerals were derived from tally marks, as possibly was the ogham script. [7] Base 1 arithmetic notation system is a unary positional system similar to tally marks. It is rarely used as a practical base for counting due to its difficult readability.