[pm-h] January Houston.pm meeting topic
G. Wade Johnson
gwadej at anomaly.org
Mon Jan 4 18:47:52 PST 2016
On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 18:37:42 -0600
Steven Lembark via Houston <houston at pm.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 23:37:39 -0600
> "G. Wade Johnson via Houston" <houston at pm.org> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 20:28:06 -0600
> > Todd Rinaldo via Houston <houston at pm.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Slide correction: XXXIIV isn't a legal number is it?
> >
> > Not in either of the Roman Number systems I'm aware of.
>
> Why? No more than 3 X's, I's before V's.
>
> Then again, the last time I looked seriously at Roman Numerals
> was in the fifth grade or so (i.e., long ago).
Only one I allowed before the V. The correct version would be XXXIII.
G. Wade
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