Roman Numerals Quotes

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  • She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.

    Funny   War   Stupid  
  • A German merchant of the fifteenth century asked an eminent professor where he should send his son for a good business education. The professor responded that German universities would be sufficient to teach the boy addition and subtraction but he would have to go to Italy to learn multiplication and division. Before you smile indulgently, try multiplying or even just adding the Roman numerals CCLXIV, MDCCCIX, DCL, and MLXXXI without first translating them.

    John Allen Paulos (2013). “Beyond Numeracy”, p.23, Vintage
  • I have no statistics to prove it, but I'm sure the American workplace will be adversely affected on Monday, the day after XXIV. The game will be the focus of conversation, and distractions happy and sad will be the order of the day, not to mention millions of hangovers. I wouldn't buy a toaster or a parachute manufactured the day after Super Bowl XXIV. You cannot engender such torrid anticipation for an event so great that it requires Roman numerals as a suffix, then expect there to be no social repercussions at its end.

    Monday   Hangover   Order  
  • Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.

    "A Man Without a Country". Essay collection by Kurt Vonnegut, September 15, 2005.
  • Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

    Comment in comp.os.plan9, groups.google.com. 2004.
  • I've been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.

  • Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.

  • It's the Roman numeral for 10. 5/5/89 is my birthday: 5 plus 5 is 10, and this is my tenth year since I got into music. 'X' is the 24th letter in the alphabet, and I will turn 24 when this album comes out. 'X' is also a metaphor, as in 'ex-girlfriend': it implies you're progressing and moving on in life, not holding on to the past and your old ways.

  • How do you write zero in Roman numerals?

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