Examples of Roman numerals

We bring you today a new lesson from a Teacher, this time on Roman numerals. It is not going to be an excessively theoretical article, but we are going to focus on giving you examples of roman numerals, both more abstractly and within sentences. We hope that this is how you see the practical implication that these numbers have in our daily lives. In the end you will find a exercise to consolidate knowledge with its respective solution.

Index

1. What are Roman numerals?
2. Abstract examples
3. Examples of Roman numerals in everyday use
4. Roman numerals exercise
5. Exercise solution

The Roman numerals they use capital letters to represent the corresponding value and are so named because they were extended during the period of the Ancient Rome, although it is a numbering based on the Etruscan numbering. Those letters cannot be repeated more than three consecutive times and are:

• I: 1
• V: 5
• X: 10
• L: 50
• C: 100
• D: 500
• M: 1,000

Thus, as you can see, with seven letters they were able to write all the numbers. However, one of the reasons Roman numerals fell into disuse was that

Another reason was that it was necessary to have a good command of basic operations, since you have to know how to add and subtract to be able to write the numbers.

Let's see a list of examples of roman numerals. Let us remember that, to write in Roman numerals, we have to be clear that there are certain rules. The first is that the number I can only subtract from V and X; the second is that X can only subtract from L and C; finally, C can only subtract from D and M. A smaller number to the left of a larger one is subtracting.

A smaller number to the right of a larger one is adding. Now yes, let's see the examples:

• 7: VII
• 19: XIX
• 23: XXIII
• 35: XXXV
• 49: XLIX
• 56: LVI
• 67: LXVII
• 70: LXX
• 84: LXXXIV
• 98: XCVIII
• 112: CXII
• 159: CLIX
• 267: CCLXVII
• 378: CCCLXXVIII
• 414: CDXIV
• 571: DLXXI
• 655: DCLV
• 780: DCCLXXX
• 800: DCCC
• 997: CMXCVII
• 1235: MCCXXXV
• 2782: MMDCCLXXXII
• 3458: MMMCDLVIII
• 3999: MMMCMXCIX

From this number, that is, from 4000, a line is written above the number that makes a thousand, that is, to write 4000 we would put IV with a line on top.

Next, we will look at sentences that include Roman numerals. They are prayers that anyone could use in their daily life, not just in a cultured way. Usually, we use Roman numerals to talk about centuries, volumes or book chapterss, the number of an event that is held periodically, to number rooms in buildings, to number subjects that have several parts ...

We go there with more examples of roman numerals used in our day to day:

• I'm going through chapter VIII of the book that you left me.
• This Thursday they have a market set in the 12th century.
• The great world leaders will meet at the XIX Congress of Medicine.
• Alfonso XII, with his reign, involved the return of the Bourbons to Spain.
• The rector's office is in room IV, far left.
• In the notes you have XLV sections that you must memorize.
• I found volume VI that my grandmother lost in the country house.
• The actor had to practice more act II of the play, he always went blank.
• Welcome to the XXX International School Reading Contest.
• I am studying Mathematics II at the Autonomous University.
• You are right, the cars of the 20th century were much tougher.
• Soon we will celebrate the 10th Cycle of Contemporary Music.
• For me, the best work by that musician is the IX, without a doubt.
• That happened in the year MCMXII.
• I have not found what I was looking for in volume XII of the encyclopedia.
• As soon as you finish chapter LV, we discuss the story.
• The clock shows eleven o'clock, but he doesn't understand it because he doesn't know the Roman numerals.

From a teacher we hope that this article has been useful for you to better understand Roman numerals and realize that they are still present in our lives, even though less than in the antiquity.

If you want to continue learning about Roman numerals, you can use the search engine that you will find at the top of the web and find articles as interesting as Roman numerals from 1 to 1000.

To finish this lesson, we leave you a Roman numerals exercise and, below, you have the solutions. Thus, you can put your knowledge to the test.

Statement) Rewrite these sentences with Roman numerals:

• The hand of the clock is about to reach 4.
• We will go to room 28.
• He won the eleventh poetry competition.
• At school we look for information in volume 24 of the encyclopedia.
• I want the video game Final Fantasy fourteen.
• It was the twelfth legislature of that government.

Let's check if your sentences are correct:

• The clock hand is about to hit IV.
• We will go to room XXVIII.
• He won the 11th poetry contest.
• At school we look for information in volume XXIV of the encyclopedia.
• I want the video game Final Fantasy XIV.
• It was the XII legislature of that government.

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Asimov, I. (1987). Of the numbers and their history. Orbis Editions.