The following is a list of the basic Roman numerals: * I - one * V - five * X - ten * L - fifty * C - hundred * D - five hundred * M - one thousand For numbers larger than 4000, a bar is placed over the Roman Numeral to indicate a multiple of a thousand, starting with V. For example a bar over the V would be five thousand. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals
Letters are not numbers. Not all letters in the alphabet represent Roman numerals though some letters do.
Many do, but not all clock towers use roman numerals.
The English language is written with the Latin alphabet (incorrectly called the Roman alphabet). This alphabet can be seen all over New York, and all over the U.S.
As all United States issued paper currency contains Roman numerals, and such currency is traded worldwide, it is safe to say that nearly all countries use Roman numerals. However, there are no countries or cultures alive today which use Roman numerals for counting or math on a day-to-day basis.
The letter in the Phonecian alphabet were the base upon which the Greek alphabet was built. From the greek alphabet, the roman alphabet was formed. The ancient roman alphabet are the letters used in Latin, and all of the Romance languages (English, Frensh, Spanish, Italian, ect.) '
The English Language uses the Roman Alphabet. Normally it is not noted when another language is written using the Roman Alphabet. Sometimes it is noted when referring to the Romanian Language. In Romania, the Roman Alphabet is used. In Moldavia, the Cyrillic Alphabet is used for the same language. Since all Western European Languages, except for Greek, use the Roman Alphabet, normally no one mentions it.
Xviii.x.lxxxxi. All in capital letters.
By the medieval rules for roman numerals (the ones that say IV is a different number from VI), that's a nonsense combination. By traditional roman rules (add up all the values no matter what order they appear in) it's 2155.
Necessity is the mother of all inventions and Roman numerals were needed in the past just for the same reasons that we still need numbers today.
All numbers can be written in roman numerals. 2786 is written as MMDCCLXXXVI.
1311 is already in numerals but if you mean as in Roman numerals then they are MCCCXI
Romans used Roman numerals as their form of numbers. Romans needed Roman Numerals because they needed numbers to count, tell time, and do other things in life that involved numbers. Roman numerals were used because they could all be scribed using a flat chisel i.e X I V M.