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The short answer is they should be IC but in accordance with today's rules governing the Roman numeral system 99 is notated as XCIX.

But 9*11 is the equivalent of IX*XI which works out as -XI+CX=IC (-1+100=99)

In fact the Romans themselves would have worked out the problem on an abacus counting device as LXXXXVIIII and probably simplified it to IC in written form because the Latin word for IC is 'undecentum' which literally means one from a hundred.

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Q: Why is it that 9 times 11 in Roman numerals is XCIX rather than IC?
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