What is MCMXCVI in Roman Numerals?

Answer 1

In the Roman numeric system, a letter has a numeric value attached to it. For example, I = 1, V = 5 and so on. Therefore MCMXCVI is equal to 1996 (M =1000, CM = 900, XC = 90, VI = 6).

Any smaller value that is found before a larger value (CM, for example) is equal to the larger number minus the smaller number.

Here are the values of each letter.

I = 1

V = 5

X = 10

L = 50

C = 100

D = 500

M = 1000