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The temptation to put in Ms designating a thousand until the 17 thousands are covered leads to the potential for mistakes both on the part of the writer and the reader.

As consequence Roman numbers surmounted by a bar would be used to represent 1000 times the indicated value. Thus 17120 would be looked at as 17 thousands (as 17 x 1000s + 2 thousands) + one hundred + twenty, or:

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