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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. Sign-value notation - Wikipedia

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    In Roman numerals, for example, X means ten and L means fifty, so LXXX means eighty (50 + 10 + 10 + 10). Although signs may be written in a conventional order the value of each sign does not depend on its place in the sequence, and changing the order does not affect the total value of the sequence in an additive system.

  4. 47 (number) - Wikipedia

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    Late rapper Capital Steez was infatuated with the number 47 and what it meant spiritually. He believed the number 47 was the "perfect expression of balance in the world", representing the tension between the heart and the brain (the fourth and seventh chakras, respectively.)

  5. Latin numerals - Wikipedia

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    Another set of numeral adjectives, similar to the above but differing in the adjectives for 1, 3, and 4, were the distributive numerals: singulī, bīnī, ternī, quaternī, quīnī, sēnī, and so on. The meaning of these is 'one each', 'two each' (or 'in pairs') and so on, for example ibī turrīs cum ternīs tabulātīs ērigēbat (Julius ...

  6. History of ancient numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    In the Etruscan system, the symbol 1 was a single vertical mark, the symbol 10 was two perpendicularly crossed tally marks, and the symbol 100 was three crossed tally marks (similar in form to a modern asterisk *); while 5 (an inverted V shape) and 50 (an inverted V split by a single vertical mark) were perhaps derived from the lower halves of ...

  7. 88 (number) - Wikipedia

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    88 is: . a refactorable number. [1]a primitive semiperfect number. [2]an untouchable number. [3]a hexadecagonal number. [4]an Erdős–Woods number, since it is possible to find sequences of 88 consecutive integers such that each inner member shares a factor with either the first or the last member.

  8. 17 (number) - Wikipedia

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    The seventeenth prime number is 59, which is equal to the total number of stellations of the icosahedron by Miller's rules. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] Without counting the icosahedron as a zeroth stellation, this total becomes 58 , a count equal to the sum of the first seven prime numbers (2 + 3 + 5 + 7 ... + 17). [ 27 ]

  9. 48 (number) - Wikipedia

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    Forty-eight may also refer to: . In Chinese numerology, 48 is an auspicious number meaning 'determined to prosper', or simply 'prosperity', which is good for business. [3]'48 is a slang term in Palestinian Arabic for parts of Israel or Palestine not under the control of the State of Palestine.