Roman numerals evolved from an Italic tally mark system which is known to have already been around in the 8th century BC.
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888 when writing with roman numerals it is 12 characters long DCCCLXXXVIIIAnother answer:999 in Roman numerals in additional notation is DCCCCLXXXXVIIII which has 15 numerals.
Not very long!
Using them for mathematical operations is very complicated, and sometimes impossible. When dealing with large numbers, roman numerals tend to be very long. There is no zero.
Roman numerals are not invented by one person .They may come into being this kind by a long time ,so much people finished them.
The Roman numeral system was used during ancient Roman times, but use of the system continued long after the Roman empire declined. In the 14th century, Roman numerals were slowly replaced by Hindu-Arabic numbers.
In Europe, the Hindu-Arabic numerals gradually displaced the Roman numerals over a long period, from about 1000 AD to about 1500 AD. After that time, Roman numerals were no longer used in calculations. Roman numerals remained in use in "official" contexts, such as dates on the foundation stones of buildings, up to very recently. They are also still used in the names of monarchs (Queen Elizabeth II, Louis XIV of France), and Popes (Pope Pius X). Also the introductory pages of books are often labelled with Roman numerals. = =
They were used throughout the length of the Roman Empire, which fell in 475 CE. So from 754BCE-475CE.
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"J" is not usually used in Roman numerals; it's probably an unusually long I. In the medieval system, where position has meaning, MDCCXLI would be 1741. In the traditional Roman system, where the individual values are simply added, it would be 1761.
Under the rules as we now know them today governing the Roman numeral system, which incidentally had absolutely nothing to do with the ancient Romans whatsoever because they were introduced during the Middle Ages long after the collapse of the Roman Empire, would rule that the Roman numerals of MMCMLXXIV when converted into Hindu-Arabic numerals are 2974.
Under today's rules governing the Roman numeral system we would write out 1999 in Roman numerals as MCMXCIX which makes it almost impossible to perform any kind of arithmetical operations with them. But the Romans themselves would have calculated 1999 on an abacus counting board as MDCCCCLXXXXVIIII and probably simplified them to IMM (-1+2000 = 1999) in written form. So: MDCCCCLXXXXVIIII - CCXXIII = MDCCLXXVI (1776) Today's rules governing the Roman numeral system were introduced during the Middle Ages but that was long after 246 AD when there were no Romans around any more in England. Presumably these new rules were introduced to make it easier to covert Roman numerals into Hindu-Arabic numerals and vice versa. Roman numerals: M=1000, D=500, C=100, L=50, X=10, V+5 and I=1