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Under today's rules now governing the Roman numeral system it is DCCCLXXXVIII = 888 and we now considered 999 to be CMXCIX but the ancient Romans would have worked out the equivalent of 999 as DCCCCLXXXXVIIII which can be abridged to IM meaning -1+1000 = 999

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