Roman counting question

[Grok]

What comes after MMMCMXCIX?

[mejal]

How about MMMM?

[Adron]

or M|))?

[Spht]

What comes after MMMCMXCIX?

That would only be 4000, so MMMM. After it gets to 5000, it's a V with a line on top.

[Kp]

What comes after MMMCMXCIX?

That would only be 4000, so MMMM. After it gets to 5000, it's a V with a line on top.

Isn't it supposed to be M followed by the symbol for 5000 (thus denoting 1000 less than 5000)?

[Spht]

What comes after MMMCMXCIX?

That would only be 4000, so MMMM. After it gets to 5000, it's a V with a line on top.

Isn't it supposed to be M followed by the symbol for 5000 (thus denoting 1000 less than 5000)?

Like:

 _
MV

I'm not totally sure if that's how I'd be written. Maybe.

Edit: You're right. I thought that rule only applied to small numbers.

[Spht]

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MMMMCDXVDCCCLX = 4415860 = 'Cat'

I'd show you what 'Grok' is, but that'd be about 3000 characters unless someone knows the roman characters for numbers higher than 1,000,000 (if they exist).

[Yoni]

For large numbers, the Romans placed a partial frame around numbers (open at the bottom), which indicated that the framed number was to be multiplied by 100,000

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In more recent practice, the strokes were sometimes written only on the sides, e.g., |X|

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The Romans sometimes used multiple parentheses to denote nested multiplications by 10, so (I) for 1,000, ((I)) for 10,000, (((I))) for 100,000, etc.

All this and more:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RomanNumerals.html

[hismajesty]

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MMMMCDXVDCCCLX = 4415860 = 'Cat'

I'd show you what 'Grok' is, but that'd be about 3000 characters unless someone knows the roman characters for numbers higher than 1,000,000 (if they exist).

www.valhallalegends.com/spht/Grok.html

[Grok]

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MMMMCDXVDCCCLX = 4415860 = 'Cat'

I'd show you what 'Grok' is, but that'd be about 3000 characters unless someone knows the roman characters for numbers higher than 1,000,000 (if they exist).

I'm pretty sure the Romans would have represented Grok with characters, and not in 8-bit ASCII.

[Spht]

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MMMMCDXVDCCCLX = 4415860 = 'Cat'

I'd show you what 'Grok' is, but that'd be about 3000 characters unless someone knows the roman characters for numbers higher than 1,000,000 (if they exist).

I'm pretty sure the Romans would have represented Grok with characters, and not in 8-bit ASCII.

Craaapp.

[iago]

Nah, they definately would have used unicode.  How else could they fit in all those silly characters?