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Can you write the symbol more than three times in roman numerals?

There are some places where four is IIII rather than IV. But that's not exactly proper. You shouldn't ever run into an occasion where you need 4 or more symbols in a row without being able to use a different symbol.


How do you write 5928 6394 and 8592 in Roman numerals?

Roman numerals do not have any symbol occurring consecutively more than three (or sometimes four) times. A number such as 5000, 6000 or 8000 would be written as the symbol V, VI or VIII (the Roman numerals for 5, 6 and 8 respectively) with a horizontal line over the top. The horizontal line indicates the number is multiplied by ten thousand.The remainder of the number would be written as it is normally written.


How do you write 11393 in Roman numerals?

Roman numerals do not have any symbol occurring consecutively more than three (or sometimes four) times. A number such as 11000 would be written as the symbol XI (the Roman numeral for 11) with a horizontal line over the top. The horizontal line indicates the number is multiplied by ten thousand.The remainder of the number would be written as 393 is normally written: CCCXCIII.


How do you write 7798 in roman numerals?

Roman numerals do not have any symbol occurring consecutively more than three (or sometimes four) times. A number such as 7000 would be written as the symbol VII (the Roman numeral for 7) with a horizontal line over the top. The horizontal line indicates the number is multiplied by ten thousand.The remainder of the number would be written as 798 is normally written: DCCXCVIII


How do you write 42394 in roman numerals?

Roman numerals do not have any symbol occurring consecutively more than three (or sometimes four) times. A number such as 42 000 would be written as the symbol XLII (the Roman numeral for 42) with a horizontal line over the top. The horizontal line indicates the number is multiplied by ten thousand.The remainder of the number would be written as 394 is normally written: CCCXCIV


How do you write 12089 in roman numerals?

Roman numerals do not have any symbol occurring consecutively more than three (or sometimes four) times. A number such as 12000 would be written as the symbol XII (the Roman numeral for 12) with a horizontal line over the top. The horizontal line indicates the number is multiplied by ten thousand.The remainder of the number would be written as 89 is normally written: LXXXIV


Why don't we use roman numarels always?

We still do use Roman numerals to a limited extent but nowadays Hindu-Arabic numerals are used almost world wide because they contain a zero symbol thus making mathematical operations a lot easier whereas Roman numerals have no zero symbol as such which makes mathematical operations a lot more difficult.


Why don't we always use roman numerals?

We still use Roman numerals to a certain extent today but the Roman numeral system was replaced by the Hindu-Arabic numeral system because it contained a zero symbol thus making arithmetical operations a lot easier whereas the Roman numeral system has no zero symbol and mathematical operations were much more difficult.


What is 45670 in Roman Numerals?

Roman numerals do not have any symbol occurring consecutively more than three (or sometimes four) times. A number such as 45 000 would be written as the symbol XLV (the Roman numeral for 45) with a horizontal line over the top. The horizontal line indicates the number is multiplied by ten thousand.The remainder of the number would be written as 670 is normally written: DCLXX


How do you write 160000 in roman numerals?

Roman numerals do not have any symbol occurring consecutively more than three (or sometimes four) times. A number such as 160 000 would be written as the symbol CLX (the Roman numeral for 160) with a horizontal line over the top. The horizontal line indicates the number is multiplied by ten thousand.


Why is Hindu Arabic numerals more prevalent than Roman numerals?

Because Hindu-Arabic numerals contains a zero symbol which makes arithmetic a lot easier to calculate whereas Roman numerals have no zero symbol thus making arithmetic more difficult to calculate.


How do you write this 903846 in numerals?

Roman numerals do not have any symbol occurring consecutively more than three (or sometimes four) times. A number such as 903 000 would be written as the symbol CMIII (the Roman numeral for 903) with a horizontal line over the top. The horizontal line indicates the number is multiplied by ten thousand.The remainder of the number would be written as 846 is normally written: DCCCXLVI