#romannumerals — Public Fediverse posts

Realised that the gates counting down toward meeting Chronos have IIII instead of IV - which is sometimes used in clock faces as alternative for IV.

And Chronos is ofc the Titan* of Time.

Also, the game remarks several times that Chronos is obsessed with money (not part of greek mythology). The gag is perhaps that "time is money".
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* Apparently Greeks had some sort of idea of powers getting dilluted? So Titans bred Gods, who bred Heroes, who bred normal people.

#hades2 #romannumerals

The longer you look at this, the worse it gets.

#ProductListing #ProductPhoto #RomanNumerals #argh #MyEyes #design #designer #GraphicDesign

Censorship or common sense? These 10 baby names are banned in the U.S.

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/banned-names-ex1

Off-label-use of pandoc: convert numbers from Roman numerals to Arabic numerals.

echo 'MMXXVI.' | pandoc -t commonmark
⇒ 2026.

#pandoc #offLabel #romanNumerals

@kemona_halftau @rl_dane

Feels like that should be Wii → Wiii → Wiv → Wv

😆

#RomanNumerals

Is this...?

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1634222/is-this

Is this...?

https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/1634217/is-this

I immediately thought this article was related to the Super Bowl 😂 😂 😂

#pope #romannumerals

@MauriceMeilleur @simoncozens @justvanrossum

More visual examples – see also the comments – with 6 out of 10 spotted in the Netherlands:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hardwig/5407633542

Modularity speeds up production. By repurposing your C’s and I’s, you don’t have to make punches or molds for M’s and D’s. Aesthetics and smartassery may have come into play, too.

#Apostrophus #RomanNumerals

@drscriptt just like we have A records and AAAA records, one could introduce an analog to the MX record for the desired IPv6: the MXXXX record 😛

#RomanNumerals

What Is the Hour? It’s XVII o’ Clock https://hackaday.com/2025/02/04/what-is-the-hour-its-xvii-o-clock/ #Adafruittrinket #romannumerals #clockhacks #LARPers #clock #watch #rtc

So, here's a detail from TGL31034, a DDR standard for lettering. It shows recommendations for Roman Numerals in both serif and sans-serif. Do you have any insight into when you might use one or the other? (the rest of the font is sans-serif).

Unicode apparently recommends that Roman numerals are constructed from the regular Latin characters; the codepoints from U+2160 to U+216F are for compatibility.

#RomanNumerals

Absolutely LIVID that the only reason they taught us #RomanNumerals is to read #copyright dates.

@chloe
I needed a #Python module for this a while ago.
```
>>> import roman
>>> roman.fromRoman('MMXXIV')
2024
>>> roman.toRoman(18)
'XVIII'
>>>

```

Altho that couldn’t deal with LEG XIIX.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caeliusstein,_Inschrift.jpg

#Roman #RomanNumerals

The Super Bowl is one of the days each year which reminds all Americans of a barbaric part of our culture which we should -- if we were truly a wise and sophisticated species -- finally abandon.

Yes, I am sorry to say it but even I have to admit just how dumb and awful it is:

Roman numerals

#NFL
#football
#SuperBowl
#SuperBowl2024
#RomanNumerals

I've noticed a tattoo fad of late of people having the year of their birth tattooed on their chests in Roman numerals.

Then today I saw an image containing a relatively young model (early 20's I'd guess) with "MCMXLIV" ... which is 1944. Time traveler? Or some other significance for him, I wonder. I will probably never know.

#tattoos #romanNumerals

There was a story in today's #Popbitch about an unfortunate journalist who mispronounced the XCX in #CharliXCX (which you just say "ecks see ecks")

I was thinking "oh no, did they call her Charli [Roman numerals]?"

but no, they called her "Charli Zzzyyykkchkks", as in 'xylophone'

which is pretty cringe, but made me laugh that I had assumed it was going to be a #RomanNumeral issue

While trying to figure out what XCX would be in #RomanNumerals I found this nifty calculator

https://www.numere-romane.ro/convert-roman-numerals-to-arabic-numbers.php

XCX turns out not to be a valid Roman number because using the subtractive formula by which you subtract the first letter from the second

(which is why IX = 10 - 1 = 9)

you'd get

XC = 100 - 10 = 90

but then the extra C just adds another 10 back on, so it's a nonsense way of saying 100

This made me reflect on how as a kid I learned the rules of Roman numerals by osmosis by watching movies and TV shows that ended with the production year in Roman numerals

e.g. MCMLXXXVII

(a number I plucked off the top of my head that offers inadvertent insight into my age)

1000 + 900 + 50 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 5 + 1 + 1 = 1987

Like, the three main rules are:

1. You arrange the letters from the highest value to the lowest and then add them up

2. V, L and D can only be used once in a number. You can use I, X, C and M up to three times in a row, but only those letters. You have to use Rule 3 to get more precise numbers

3. When you put a numeral with a lower value in front of one with a higher value, you subtract the lower number from the higher number. But you can only use the subtractive letter once in the number, which is why XCX doesn't work

Today I learned a new rule:

4. Putting brackets around a Roman numeral adds "thousand" to the end of its value. (Sometimes this is also shown with a macron – the straight horizontal accent – over the letter)

V = 5
(V) = 5000
L = 50
(L) = 50,000

When I was a kid, I confused #ramennoodles with #romannumerals

Hereby renaming #GenX #GenL #RomanNumerals