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justified when chiseling those numbers in stone or scribing them in wet clay. |
justified when chiseling those numbers in stone or scribing them in wet clay. |
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<br>Also, numbers such as <tt> IIXX </tt> should also be converted correctly, as they do appear on old structures and tombstones. Even |
<br>Also, numbers such as <tt> IIXX </tt> should also be converted correctly, as they do appear on old structures and tombstones. Even |
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though modern rules say such a construct is invalid, the number still has an equivalent decimal number. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 03:53, 25 April 2012 (UTC) |
though modern rules say such a construct is invalid, the number still has an equivalent decimal number. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 03:53, 25 April 2012 (UTC) |
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Furthermore, the Latin word for '''eighteen''' is '''duodeviginti''' which literally means '''two-from-twenty''', or '''IIXX'''. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 21:34, 9 July 2012 (UTC) |
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