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  2. Roman numerals - Wikipedia

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    There are some examples of year numbers after 1000 written as two Roman numerals 1–99, e.g. 1613 as XVIXIII, corresponding to the common reading "sixteen thirteen" of such year numbers in English, or 1519 as X XIX as in French quinze-cent-dix-neuf (fifteen-hundred and nineteen), and similar readings in other languages. [37]

  3. Latin numerals - Wikipedia

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    In Antiquity and during the Middle Ages they were usually represented by Roman numerals in writing. ... 1000: ↀ: mīlle: The ... the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 200, 300 ...

  4. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    [1]: 38 The term is not equivalent to radix, as it applies to all numerical notation systems (not just positional ones with a radix) and most systems of spoken numbers. [1] Some systems have two bases, a smaller (subbase) and a larger (base); an example is Roman numerals, which are organized by fives (V=5, L=50, D=500, the subbase) and tens (X ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Numeral system - Wikipedia

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    Not all number systems can represent the same set of numbers; for example, Roman numerals cannot represent the number ... and the geometric numerals (1, 10, 100, 1000 ...

  7. Alphabetic numeral system - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Aramaic alphabets had enough letters to reach up to 9000. In mathematical and astronomical manuscripts, other methods were used to represent larger numbers. 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.

  8. 1000 (number) - Wikipedia

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    The number 1000 is also sometimes described as a ... 1569 = 2 × 28 2 + 1 = number of different 2 × ... 1666 = largest efficient pandigital number in Roman numerals ...

  9. Timeline of numerals and arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    12th century — the Arabic numerals reach Europe through the Arabs. 1202 — Leonardo Fibonacci demonstrates the utility of Hindu–Arabic numeral system in his Book of the Abacus. c. 1400 — Ghiyath al-Kashi “contributed to the development of decimal fractions not only for approximating algebraic numbers, but also for real numbers such as ...