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  2. Roman numerals - Wikipedia

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    Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages.Numbers are written with combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet, each with a fixed integer value.

  3. Roman numeral analysis - Wikipedia

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    The accompaniment performers translate the Roman numerals to the specific chords that would be used in a given key. In the key of E major, the diatonic chords are: E maj7 becomes I maj7 (also I ∆7, or simply I) F ♯ m 7 becomes II m7 (also II −7, II min7, IIm, or II −) G ♯ m 7 becomes III m7 (also III −7, III min7, IIIm, or III −)

  4. Alphabetic numeral system - Wikipedia

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    An alphabetic numeral system employs the letters of a script in the specific order of the alphabet in order to express numerals. In Greek, letters are assigned to respective numbers in the following sets: 1 through 9, 10 through 90, 100 through 900, and so on. Decimal places are represented by a single symbol.

  5. Latin alphabet - Wikipedia

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    New Roman cursive script, also known as minuscule cursive, was in use from the 3rd century to the 7th century, and uses letter forms that are more recognizable to modern eyes; a , b , d , and e had taken a more familiar shape, and the other letters were proportionate to each other.

  6. Latin numerals - Wikipedia

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    Thus Roman authors would write: ūnae litterae 'one letter', trīnae litterae 'three letters', quīna castra 'five camps', etc. Except for the numbers 1, 3, and 4 and their compounds, the plurale tantum numerals are identical with the distributive numerals (see below).

  7. Latin letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering

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    an unknown variable, most often (but not always) from the set of real numbers, while a complex unknown would rather be called z, and an integer by a letter like m from the middle of the alphabet the coordinate on the first or horizontal axis in a Cartesian coordinate system , [ 10 ] or the viewport in a graph or window in computer graphics; the ...

  8. Latin-script alphabet - Wikipedia

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    A Latin-script alphabet (Latin alphabet or Roman alphabet) is an alphabet that uses letters of the Latin script. The 21-letter archaic Latin alphabet and the 23-letter classical Latin alphabet belong to the oldest of this group. [1] The 26-letter modern Latin alphabet is the newest of this group.

  9. Number Forms - Wikipedia

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    Number Forms is a Unicode block containing Unicode compatibility characters that have specific meaning as numbers, but are constructed from other characters.They consist primarily of vulgar fractions and Roman numerals.