David in Dallas Loc: Dallas, Texas, USA

How do you get that? 70 in Roman numerals is LXX. There is no "R" in Roman numerals that I know of.

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The Romans used quite a clever system. The I which is actually a one was either placed in front of or after a letter that represents a figure. For instance a V represents five. So a V on its own was five. If they wanted to show four it is IV or six it is VI.
That simply reads as one before five for four or one after five for six. The same logic applies to seven VII, two after five, or three IIV two before five. Or in fact the way the Romans meant it to be read, as the one before the one before five for three IIV . Or the one after the one after five for seven VII .

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Caring is a personal option even though it may not appeal to the grumpy among us who for some stoopid reason are reading the thread anyway.

Eye like eye eye eye .... reminds me of mariachi band. And I am one of the grumpy ones !

LWW Loc: Banana Republic of America

That’s why I said Medieval Latin, in which R was eighty.

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Waaaaaaaay inside baseball .....

Good one, up in the stands.

bobnewnan22 Loc: Las Vegas, NV

The Aussie on YouTube says Zed two.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

You can only put a symbol in front of a larger number once to subtract, but you can put the symbol three times to add. The I can only be put in front of the V or X
So: I=1 II=2 III=3 IV=4 V=5 VI=6 VII=7 VIII=8 IX=9 X=10
A bar over a symbol means 1,000 of that symbol. Two bars, one above and one below joins the symbols into one number.

I used to keep a one day lesson on Roman Numerals for subs to use if I was out longer than expected and they used up the lesson plans I left. I had about 5 of those little miscellaneous lessons in a file for subs.

Once when I had emergency gall bladder surgery (I almost died.) and was out 6 weeks I wrote lesson plans and graded tests at home with family members delivering lesson plans and bringing the tests for me to grade. For some reason they did not assign a long term sub to my classes and there were 11 different subs in that 6 weeks. I really had a mess to straighten out when I returned. Half of my lessons were never presented, tests were not given etc and I had to do extra lessons the second semester to get the students where they were supposed to be by the end of the school year. To top it off I hit the hospital the day before text books were issued the first week of the Fall Semester, the last day I was there I got the books from the bookroom planning to issue them the next day - the sub handed them out without having the students fill out book cards. By the end of the school year in June I still had 5 books unaccounted for. Normally a teacher or student had to pay for books lost but due to the 6 weeks of subs without any accounting the school just wrote those books off.
Here is a brief lesson on Roman Numerals. https://www.dictionary.com/e/roman-numerals/

LWW Loc: Banana Republic of America

In 'ENGLISH' Z is pronounced 'ZED' while where people speak 'AMERICAN' it is pronounced ZEE.

LWW Loc: Banana Republic of America

I have a reputation as a font of useless/near useless trivia.

As a funny aside, the only person I knew back in the eighties who could hang with me on TRIVIAL PURSUIT and I both entered a tournament with a side challenge that whomever went out of the tournament first would pay the bill for dinner and adult beverages afterwards.

To know why this is funny, you must understand that I played baseball in college, and amateur until age 30, am a diehard CINCINNATI REDS fan and was wearing my Pete Rose jersey that evening.

Well, Marty and I met in the finals and he missed his question which was on something totally obscure and mine was ... drum roll please ... what major league baseball player went by the nickname 'CHARLEY HUSTLE'?

WJShaheen Loc: Gold Canyon, AZ

Maybe it should be "zed seven two". (I've only recently learned from a Canadian friend that the letter Z, which we in the US pronounce as "zee", is pronounced "zed" in the rest of the world.)

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

My vote is for "Zulu Seven Mark Two" or just "that camera".

FotoHog Loc: on Cloud 9

yur aktsent sounts leike Djerman, or maibi Amisch? . . .

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

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robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Es dilect ub Klingon. Bean der veshon ub rednek billy of de hils.

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Similar but more angular.