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The accepted convention only permits Roman numerals in the range 1-3999. While this convention may be relaxed slightly to allow MMMMM to mean 5,000, using 32 Ms to represent 32,000 is somewhat overboard.

However, Middle Age notation allowed a numeral to be multiplied by 1000 by placing an overline over the numeral. Thus 32,000 can be represented as 32 thousand:

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However, fractions were strictly duodecimal (1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/6, 1/12ths, 1/24ths, ..., 1/144ths, etc). Thus it would be impossible to notate just 1/10,000th, never mind 32,032/10,000ths (which is 3.2032 in decimal). While it may be possible if you can factor high enough, there would be no symbol to represent it. The smallest fraction The Romans worked with was 1/1728th.

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