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  2. Roman numerals - Wikipedia

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    In tarot, Roman numerals (with zero) are often used to denote the cards of the Major Arcana. In Ireland, Roman numerals were used until the late 1980s to indicate the month on postage Franking. In documents, Roman numerals are sometimes still used to indicate the month to avoid confusion over day/month/year or month/day/year formats.

  3. 149 (number) - Wikipedia

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    149 is the 35th prime number, the first prime whose difference from the previous prime is exactly 10, [1] an emirp, and an irregular prime. [2] After 1 and 127, it is the third smallest de Polignac number, an odd number that cannot be represented as a prime plus a power of two. [3]

  4. Roman numeral analysis - Wikipedia

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    Roman numerals are sometimes complemented by Arabic numerals to denote inversion of the chords. The system is similar to that of Figured bass, the Arabic numerals describing the characteristic interval(s) above the bass note of the chord, the figures 3 and 5 usually being omitted. The first inversion is denoted by the numeral 6 (e.g.

  5. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    "A base is a natural number B whose powers (B multiplied by itself some number of times) are specially designated within a numerical system." [1]: 38 The term is not equivalent to radix, as it applies to all numerical notation systems (not just positional ones with a radix) and most systems of spoken numbers. [1]

  6. Template:Roman - Wikipedia

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    The number to be converted to Roman numerals. If the parameter passed cannot be interpreted as a numerical value, no output is generated. Example 69105: Number: optional: Message: 2: Message to display for numbers that are too big to be displayed in Roman numerals. (The largest number supported is 4999999.) Default N/A Example Too big: String ...

  7. History of ancient numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    The Roman numerals developed from Etruscan symbols around the middle of the 1st millennium BCE. [34] In the Etruscan system, the symbol 1 was a single vertical mark ...

  8. Positional notation - Wikipedia

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    Hellenistic and Roman astronomers used a base-60 system based on the Babylonian model (see Greek numerals § Zero). Before positional notation became standard, simple additive systems ( sign-value notation ) such as Roman numerals or Chinese numerals were used, and accountants in the past used the abacus or stone counters to do arithmetic until ...

  9. Alphabetic numeral system - Wikipedia

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    The direction of numerals follows the writing system's direction. Writing is from left to right in Greek, Coptic, Ethiopic, Gothic, Armenian, Georgian, Glagolitic, and Cyrillic alphabetic numerals along with Shirakatsi's notation. Right-to-left writing is found in Hebrew and Syriac alphabetic numerals, Arabic abjad numerals, and Fez numerals.