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Because the modern rules now governing the Roman numeral system stipulates that 49 in Roman numerals is XLIX but the ancient Romans would have worked it out on an abacus counting device as XXXXVIIII and then probably abridged it to IL (50-1)

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Q: Why isn't 49 represented by IL in roman numerals?
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